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Rubio 2.0 is truly him just not giving a crap anymore.
Watch this exchange with Jayapal. pic.twitter.com/MEY2bweiVH
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 21, 2025
RUBIO: She was a guest in the United States on a student visa. No one is entitled to a student visa. We deny visas every day, and we will revoke and consider revoking visas.
JAYAPAL: You revoked her student visa based on an op-ed, which trumps the supreme law of the land, which is the Constitution.
RUBIO: If someone is coming here to stir up problems on our campuses, we're going to revoke their visa.
JAYAPAL: She didn't do any of that. She wrote an op-ed. She wrote an op-ed, and I'm talking to you about her particular case.
RUBIO: That's her lawyer's claims and your claims. Those are not the facts.
JAYAPAL: Reclaiming my time. You revoked her student visa because she wrote an op-ed.
RUBIO: Yes, proudly.
This next part is even funnier. As Jayapal continued to press, Rubio just doubled down harder, saying, "And we're going to do more of them" to her complaints.
JAYAPAL: Would you revoke...
RUBIO: And we're going to do more fo them. We are going to revoke the visa of anyone who's in the country as a guest who's here to stir up trouble.
JAYAPAL: Are you going to revoke the visa of somebody who made that statement (crosstalk)?
RUBIO: I'm looking to get crazy people out of our country.
JAYAPAL: Actually, it's not just about revoking, you actually (crosstalk)...excuse me, reclaiming my time.
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JAYAPAL: If these are legitimate law enforcement agents carrying out proper arrests, why are they hiding their identities?
RUBIO: Because then radical crazies will try to hurt them...