Rubio on Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest: ‘Don’t have a right to be in the US’

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, stating that he “didn’t have a right to be in the United States.”

During a stop at Shannon Airport in Ireland en route to the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Canada, following talks on Ukraine, Rubio responded to reporters about the detention and potential deportation of the former Columbia University protest organizer behind large anti-Israel demonstrations.

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