During a State Department press briefing, Spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about pro-Palestinian protestors having student visas revoked.
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00:00as well.
00:01The visa thing.
00:02Just a quick one.
00:03The visa, sure.
00:04Can you – is the area clear when it comes to revoking visas for foreign students?
00:09Are you revoking visas for students who clearly support Hamas and shows literature that support
00:16in Hamas?
00:17Or is it also include students who support Palestine or the free – they say the freedom
00:23of the Palestinians or showing sympathy with civilians in Gaza?
00:27Is that area very clear?
00:28Well, what Secretary Rubio has been saying on a number of different interviews is that
00:34this is about if you were – when you think about someone applying to come into the country
00:37to get a visa, if you were to say everything that he was – ended up doing would be his
00:43goal upon entering the country, we would never have issued the visa.
00:47So you have a dynamic, whereas if there's going to be certain kinds of actions that
00:51you're going to undertake, that we don't accept that.
00:55Every country has a right to control its borders and to determine who's going to
01:00come into the country.
01:02So in this particular instance, there's also, I know, a freedom of speech argument.
01:07But this is not about speech.
01:09It's about actions.
01:10It's about things that were done.
01:13And of course, I don't want to go further because also this is within a court dynamic.
01:18America's got the best court system in the world, and there will be arguments on both
01:24sides, no doubt, regarding this.
01:25But it has to be argued, it has to be litigated.
01:28But the actions that we take and the decisions we make are not about content.
01:33It's about actions that are occurring, and certainly in that particular case.
01:37Yes.
01:38Go ahead.