Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized anyone who supports pro-Hamas activist Mahmoud Khalil on First Amendment grounds but has also promoted censorship.
In a Sunday interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” when asked by host Margaret Brennan about First Amendment concerns coming from Khalil’s arrest by federal immigration authorities two weeks ago, Rubio replied that “I find it ironic that a lot of these people out there defending the First Amendment speech, alleged free speech rights of these Hamas sympathizers they had no problem, okay, pressuring social media to censor American political speech.”
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“So I think it’s ironic and hypocritical,” Rubio said.
In terms of what the crime was to warrant the arrest, Rubio answered that “[N]egotiating on behalf of people that took over a campus, that vandalized buildings. That’s a crime in and of itself, that they’re involved in being a negotiator, the spokesperson.”
Rubio stated that “…if you tell us, when you apply for a visa, ‘I’m coming to the U.S. to participate in pro-Hamas events,’ that runs counter to the foreign policy interest of the United States of America. If you had told us that you were going to do that, we never would have given you the visa.” […]
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