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Western Journal: Rubio Lays Down the Law After Reporter Asks Why Activist Student’s Visa Was Suddenly Revoked

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F*ck*ng fascist Rubio. The Bill of Rights is for EVERYBODY in this country.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is laying down the law: If you get a student visa to the United States, you’re here to study.

You’re not here to occupy buildings and clash with police. Not to disrupt class and terrorize Jewish students. Study. Period.

That was the point he drove home after a reporter asked him about the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D student at Massachusetts’ Tufts University who was arrested by plain-clothes federal agents Tuesday after her visa was revoked for taking part in pro-Palestinian protests, the Associated Press reported.

Those who are fighting her deportation say she merely wrote an Op-Ed defending the Palestinian cause and claim authorities haven’t given a specific reason why her visa has been revoked. A U.S. judge barred Ozturk from being moved out of the state of Massachusetts by the Department of Homeland Security without notice to the court while her case works its way through the system, but she had already been taken to an ICE detention facility in Louisiana by the time of the ruling.

Asked about the detention during a news conference in Guyana on Thursday, Rubio made it clear that the government believes it has a solid case against Ozturk — and that her case should serve as an example for others.

Solid case? LOL! The courts have sided with you fascists how many times since this all started? Two? Three? Keep losing, losers!

“If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you are coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we are not going to give you a visa,” Rubio said.

Rubio Lays Down the Law After Reporter Asks Why Activist Student’s Visa Was Suddenly Revoked
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is laying down the law: If you get a student visa to the United States, you’re here to study. You’re not here to occupy buildings and clash with police. Not to disrupt class and terrorize Jewish students. Study. Period. That was the point he drove home after a reporter asked him about the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D student at Massachusetts’ Tufts University who was arrested by plain-clothes federal agents…

Rubio Lays Down the Law After Reporter Asks Why Activist Student’s Visa Was Suddenly Revoked

So here’s the question: who’s next? Because the SUV will roll again. The masks will come again. And next time it won’t be a child development scholar. It might be …. Or you.

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They Took Her Like a Ghost: How the U.S. Government Vanished a Tufts Scholar In Broad Daylight

She was walking to break her fast. Five-foot-two, unarmed, carrying a phone and a backpack. Her name was Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Turkish national studying child trauma.

Then the black SUV pulled up.

Three masked men jumped out. No badges. No uniforms. One of them snatched her phone. Another cuffed her. She was surrounded, overwhelmed, dragged off the sidewalk like a package being intercepted. A bystander yelled, “Who are you?” One of them grunted, “Police.”

And then she was gone.

That wasn’t an arrest. That was a state-sponsored abduction.

The video is a damning indictment.

There’s no need for speculation. The video is public. Watch it. Stomach it. Feel the dread settle in. This isn’t an overseas intelligence op. It’s not Kabul. It’s not Tehran. It’s Somerville, Massachusetts. A U.S. college town. And the Department of Homeland Security is operating like a black-bag unit.

No knock. No warning. No Miranda rights. Just masks, muscle, and silence.

You expect this in dictatorships — not next to a Dunkin’ Donuts.

Homeland security says, “Trust us.” They don’t deserve it.

The feds claim her visa was revoked because she allegedly provided “material support” to Hamas. They won’t say what that means. No evidence has been presented. No charges. No trial. Just one word: terrorist — tossed like chum into the water so no one asks questions.

Then came the kicker: a federal judge issued a court order hours later demanding she not be moved out of Massachusetts without 48 hours’ notice.

ICE said, “Oops — too late.” She was already on a plane to Louisiana.

A scholar studying child psychology at Tufts. Shipped to a for-profit detention center like she was a threat to national security.

No lawyer. No hearing. No rights.

What’s the real crime here? Being Muslim? Being foreign? Supporting the wrong cause?

The university barely whispered.

Tufts President Sunil Kumar issued a safe, neutered statement. He called it “distressing.” Students called it what it was: a kidnapping. Thousands of them flooded Powder House Square in protest, holding signs that said “Free Rumeysa” and “We Are Not Safe.”

Because they’re not. Because none of us are.

Not if this country is going to treat political dissent like terrorism. Not if immigration law is just a tool for erasing inconvenient voices.

This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political cleansing.

Let’s drop the bullshit. This wasn’t about security. This was about sending a message — loud and brutal — to every international student, every Muslim woman in a hijab, every academic who dares speak up for the wrong side.

This is what authoritarianism looks like in America in 2025. No jackboots. No gulags. Just a clean press release, a vague accusation, and a plane ticket to nowhere.

They won’t call it fascism. But it moves like fascism. It hides behind national security, weaponizes fear, and disappears people in plain sight.

And now they’ve done it to someone with credentials, with visibility, with institutional protection.

Imagine what they’re doing to those without.

This is a litmus test. Who’s going to fail it?

If you’re not enraged, you’re not paying attention. This wasn’t just about Rumeysa Ozturk. This was a dry run. A systems check. A test balloon to see how much backlash the regime gets for disappearing a foreign student from a liberal university.

The answer? A few statements. Some protests. No consequences.

So here’s the question: who’s next?

Because the SUV will roll again. The masks will come again. And next time it won’t be a child development scholar. It might be a journalist. A protester. A teacher. A neighbor.

Or you.

THEY TOOK HER LIKE A GHOST: HOW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT VANISHED A TUFTS SCHOLAR IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
She was walking to break her fast.

THEY TOOK HER LIKE A GHOST: HOW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT VANISHED A TUFTS SCHOLAR IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

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Mediaite: Democratic Senator Warns Trump Putting Country Under ‘Quasi-Martial Law’ After ‘Chilling’ Cloak-And-Dagger Arrest

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The video is really chilling. And this should matter to every single American. Okay, first of all the president doesn’t need the Alien Enemies Act in order to remove from this country. People who pose a threat to the nation, people who have engaged in criminal behavior or who have coordinated with terrorist groups, he has that power under existing law to remove from the country non-citizens. So he doesn’t need this authority.

What he is trying to do is put America on a war footing. This is an act that has only been exercised three times in American history. During the war of 1812, during the First World War, and during the Second World War. It is a wartime authority, and what you really worry about is the president continuing to move forward in exercising wartime powers in order to suspend additional elements of the constitution.

He, of course, has shown affection for something called the Insurrection Act, which would put the military in charge of everyday law enforcement in this country.

You are watching along multiple channels this massive slide away from democracy and democratic norms. And so that video is chilling because a the president doesn’t need that act to be able to remove a threat, but it speaks to his willingness to try to put America in a kind of quasi-martial law that ultimately will come to be a threat, not just to green card holders, but to American citizens as well.

So it’s a really worrying time and everybody in America should care what’s happening.

Democratic Senator Warns Trump Putting Country Under ‘Quasi-Martial Law’ After ‘Chilling’ Cloak-And-Dagger Arrest
Murphy accused Trump of putting the country under a state of “quasi-martial law” after reviewing the “chilling” footage of a Tufts University student’s arrest.

Chris Murphy: Trump ‘Putting’ U.S. Under ‘Quasi-Martial Law’

Associated Press: Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her

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A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, had just left her home in Somerville on Tuesday night when she was stopped, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said in a petition filed in Boston federal court.

Video obtained by The Associated Press appears to show six people, their faces covered, taking away Ozturk’s phone as she yells and is handcuffed.

“We’re the police,” members of the group are heard saying in the video.

A man is heard asking, “Why are you hiding your faces?”

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‘This isn’t public safety, it’s intimidation’

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“It looked like a kidnapping,” said Michael Mathis, a 32-year-old software engineer whose surveillance camera captured the arrest. “They approach her and start grabbing her with their faces covered. They’re covering their faces. They’re in unmarked vehicles.”

And as usual the DHS dirtbags are ignoring the court’s binding orders:

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued an order giving the government until Friday to answer why Ozturk was being detained. Talwani also ordered that Ozturk not be moved outside the District of Massachusetts without 48 hours advance notice.

But as of Wednesday evening, the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s online detainee locator system listed her as being held at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana.

Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Watch: Masked ICE officials detain Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk | AP News

NBC News: Video shows Tufts graduate student grabbed off the street by federal immigration officials

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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national with a valid student visa, was arrested Tuesday on her way to meet up with friends to break her Ramadan fast, her lawyer said.

Federal authorities detained a Tufts University graduate student Tuesday while she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast with friends, her lawyer said, and the moment was caught on video.

Department of Homeland Security agents apprehended Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national who was maintaining a valid F-1 student visa as a doctoral student, near her home, her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, said in a statement.

“It was only late Wednesday evening that I learned that she was sent to Louisiana, despite a federal court order that she not be removed from the state,” Khanbabai said in an email early Thursday.

Video shows Tufts graduate student grabbed off the street by federal immigration officials
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national with a valid student visa, was arrested Tuesday on her way to meet up with friends to break her Ramadan fast, her lawyer said.

Video shows Tufts graduate student grabbed off the street by federal immigration officials