Marco Rubio Confirms Hamas Supporters Will Be DEPORTED

Secretary of State Marco Rubio just issued a statement following news that the Trump administration has arrested a key figure in pro-Hamas campus riots.

In response to an AP article about ICE arresting the Palestinian riot leader Mahmoud Khalil, Rubio confirmed that Hamas supporters in America will have their visas or green cards revoked, then be deported.

Here’s Marco Rubio’s full statement on X:

We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported https://t.co/oKba2Mmi3C

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 9, 2025

Secretary Rubio’s hard-line stance comes after the Biden administration did nothing to stop pro-terrorist campus rioters from taking over buildings and assaulting other students at institutions across the nation, like Columbia University.

Supporting terrorist groups will not be tolerated underneath President Trump.

If you hate America, then let’s give you a one-way ticket out.

That good with everyone?

🚨 #BREAKING: Secretary Marco Rubio releases statement after the Trump administration ARRESTED a leader of the pro-Hamas Columbia University riots

“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”

These rioters TOOK OVER… https://t.co/LylAiPxGc4 pic.twitter.com/SBOQp6HyBZ

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 9, 2025

BREAKING:

Badassed Secretary of State Marco Rubio says they will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.

F.A.F.O.

This is how we take our country back.

Pro terrorist – you're gone. pic.twitter.com/yjka7GsWiR

— Mila Joy (@MilaLovesJoe) March 9, 2025

Here’s what AP reported about ICE making their first big arrest linked the the pro-Hamas campus riots:

Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in protests against Israel at Columbia University, according to his attorney.

Mahmoud Khalil was inside a university-owned residence Saturday night near Columbia’s Manhattan campus when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered his apartment and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told The Associated Press.

Greer said she spoke by phone with one of the ICE agents during the arrest, who said they were acting on State Department orders to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer.

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The arrest appeared to be among the first known actions under President Donald Trump’s pledge to deport international students who joined the protests against the war in Gaza that swept college campuses last spring. His administration has claimed participants forfeited their rights to remain in the country by supporting Hamas, a terror organization.

The New York Post provided more details:

President Trump is giving this anti-Israel campus rabble-rouser a ticket to study abroad — for good.

A Palestinian activist who led a coalition of twisted radicals seeking the “total eradication of Western Civilization” responsible for riotous protests at Columbia University and Barnard College has been arrested by ICE agents, according to his lawyer.

Columbia University Apartheid Divest leader Mahmoud Khalil, who completed his graduate studies at Ivy League Columbia in December, also potentially faces having his visa revoked and his green card canceled following President Trump’s crackdown on unrest at colleges, attorney Amy Greer said Sunday.

He was inside his university-owned apartment a few blocks from campus Saturday night when ICE agents entered the residence and took him into custody, Greer said.

Despite graduating months ago, Khalil, who earned his undergraduate degree in Beirut, still lived in school-provided housing due to a policy allowing students to remain on campus after graduating, a source told The Post.

He has remained active in recent disruptive protests, including last week’s takeover of the Milstein Library at Barnard College. Videos and photographs posted on X depict him holding a bullhorn near the library entrance and engaged in discussion with school administrators.

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That protest featured violent propaganda flyers that purportedly came directly from the “Hamas Media Office,” including one pamphlet titled “Our Narrative… Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” which justified the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people — and in which women were repeatedly raped, whole families were executed and 251 hostages were taken to the Gaza Strip.

Others at the Barnard library takeover passed around trading card-like photos of notorious Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon last September.

Ari Shrage, head of Columbia’s Jewish Alumni Association, told The Post he was dismayed and concerned to see the literature that was being distributed.

“These protesters were handing out materials from terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah. Every American citizen should be concerned when students are encouraging terrorist activities on US soil regardless of their nationality.”