Marco Rubio Explains Visas in a Way Even Leftists Should Be Able to Understand [WATCH]

Sen. Marco Rubio addressed the revocation of an F1 student visa, saying the decision was based on the applicant’s stated intent to engage in disruptive activities on U.S. campuses.

“We revoked her visa. She said it’s an f1 visa. I believe we revoked it, and here’s why, and I’ll say it again. I said it everywhere. Let me be abundantly clear. Okay, if you go apply for a visa right now anywhere in the world, let me just send this message out. If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason why you’re 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’re not going to give you a visa,” Rubio said.

Rubio said the policy applies not only to applicants who disclose such intentions during the visa process, but also to those who obtain a visa and later engage in disruptive conduct.

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“If you lie to us and get a visa and then enter the United States, and with that visa participate in that sort of activity, we’re going to take away your visa. And once you’ve lost your visa, you’re no longer legal in the United States, and we have a right, like every country in the world has a right to remove you from our country. So it’s just that simple,” Rubio said.

The senator framed the issue as one of national sovereignty and the conditions under which foreign nationals are allowed to enter the country as visitors.

“I think it’s crazy. I think it’s stupid for any country in the world to welcome people into their country. They’re going to go to your universities as visitors. They’re visitors and say, I’m going to your universities to start a riot. I’m going to your universities to take over a library and harass people. I don’t care what movement you’re involved in. Why would any country in the world allow people to come and disrupt we gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses. And if we’ve given you a visa, and then you decide to do that, we’re going to take it away,” Rubio said.

Rubio encouraged other nations to adopt similar policies when dealing with foreign students who disrupt campus environments.

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“I encourage every country to do that, by the way, because I think it’s crazy to invite students into your country that are coming onto your campus and destabilizing it. We’re just not going to have it. So we’ll revoke your visa. And once your visa is revoked, you’re illegally in the country and you have to leave. Every country in the world has a right to decide who comes in as a visitor and who doesn’t,” Rubio said.

He compared the situation to inviting a guest into a private home.

“If you invite me into your home because you say, I want to come to your house for dinner, and I go to your house and I start putting mud on your couch and spray painting your kitchen. I bet you you’re going to kick me out. Well, we’re going to do the same thing if you come into the United States as a visitor and create a ruckus for us. We don’t want it. We don’t want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country, but you’re not going to do it in our country,” Rubio said.

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Rubio said visas are issued for educational purposes and that engaging in vandalism, harassment, or campus takeovers is incompatible with the terms under which student visas are granted. He said that once a visa is revoked, the individual is no longer legally present in the United States and is subject to removal.

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