The State Department has “most certainly been denying visas” to people “celebrating” the murder of Charlie Kirk, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned Tuesday.
The prime US diplomat mentioned he didn’t know whether or not any visas had been revoked but, however mentioned he anticipated that some could be.
“I’m sure there’ll be some that are revoked,” Rubio instructed the press earlier than departing Israel early Tuesday native time. There’s no scarcity of idiots all over the world which have determined it’s an amazing concept to murder somebody.”
“By the way, it’s bad that we have people that are US citizens that feel that way,” he mentioned.
Rubio didn’t present extra specifics on the variety of visas that had been denied, how the State Department determined the people have been “celebrating” Kirk’s demise, or the authority beneath which they have been denied.
Rubio claimed that it “isn’t just about Charlie Kirk.”
“If you’re a foreigner and you’re out there celebrating the assassination of someone who was speaking somewhere, I mean, we don’t want you in the country,” he mentioned. “Why would we want to give a visa to someone who thinks it’s good that someone was murdered in the public square? That’s just common sense to me.”