The secretary of state said he was trying to expel “lunatics” who had taken part in campus movements, as well as criminals. Some are permanent U.S. residents.

The government revoked Tufts doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk's visa due to her pro-Palestinian activism, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The government has arrested international students who participated in pro-Palestinian protests on campuses. Rubio called them 'lunatics'.

Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by federal agents and had her student visa revoked after DHS said Homeland Security and ICE investigators found she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.

Protesters are demanding the release of a Columbia University student the Trump administration is trying to expel from the U.S. for his role in campus protests against Israel.

The State Department has revoked at least 300 visas, mostly over pro-Palestinian protests, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, as the United States cracks down on the activism of foreign-born residents.

Rumeysa Ozturk's supporters say her detention is the first known immigration arrest of a Boston-area student involved in pro-Palestinian protests to be carried out by Trump's administration.

Speaking to reporters in Guyana on Thursday, Rubio said that Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts doctoral candidate studying child development, was part of the student protest movement that caused chaos on university campuses last year.

Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken into custody on Tuesday in Somerville, Massachusetts, was whisked quickly out of the state before a federal judge issued an order limiting the government's ability to move her.