U.S. embassies in Europe have just lately given stark warnings to visa-seekers amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.
“When you apply to enter the United States and you get a visa, you are a guest,” the U.S. Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia, stated Monday on Fb.
“Now, if you are in this country to promote Hamas, to promote terrorist organizations, to participate in vandalism, to participate in acts of rebellion and riots on campus, we never would have let you in if we had known that. You lied to us. You’re out,” the embassy continued.
American embassies in Germany and the UK reposted a State Division submit from final week on the social platform X that includes an earlier message from Secretary of State Rubio by which he stated his nation “has zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists.”
“Violators of U.S. law — including international students — face visa denial or revocation, and deportation,” Rubio added in his message posted to X earlier this month.
The U.S. Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, stated Sunday in a submit on X that “U.S. visa screening does not stop after a visa is issued.”
“We continuously check visa holders to ensure they follow all U.S. laws and immigration rules — and we will revoke their visas and deport them if they don’t,” the submit continued.
Final week, a Georgetown College postdoctoral scholar, Badar Khan Suri, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one of many a number of overseas college students throughout the U.S. who has been entangled within the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns at universities.
Suri was arrested March 17 in Arlington, Va., in response to a submitting within the case. The Georgetown scholar was instructed by officers that his scholar visa had been revoked.
Tricia McLaughlin, a Homeland Safety assistant secretary, stated on social media that Suri was “actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media.”
