Indian student self-deports from US after Visa revoked for supporting Hamas

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An Indian student, Ranjani Srinivasan, has self-deported from the United States after her visa was revoked for supporting Hamas. The US administration cited advocacy of violence and terrorism as the reason.

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00:00Is coming in from the United States of America now an Indian student has been self-deported from the United States

00:06Visa of scholar Ranjani Srinivasan has been revoked

00:10Her visa has been revoked because she supported Hamas

00:14United States said that student advocated violence and terrorism and that's why the administration has taken a call

00:21Visa of scholar

00:25Ranjani Srinivasan has been revoked

00:28My colleague Geeta Mohan is now joining me on the story

00:31Geeta this is a big thing coming in from the United States of America

00:34The US is now saying that this particular student advocated violence and terrorism

00:40Well, this is a major crackdown on student protests that have taken place post the Gaza operation by Israel

00:47there's many students who had come out protesting the

00:51kind of operations that were being carried out by Israel against

00:55Against the people in Gaza and

00:58Now there is an active

01:03method that the US administration Department of Justice is using to identify those who were a part of the protest and

01:13And then if they are foreign nationals to revoke their visa

01:18Which is which is what happened to Ranjani Srinivasan

01:22She is an Indian national on an F1 student visa was in Columbia doing her doctoral studies

01:29in urban planning and

01:32Her visa was revoked, which is why she used the CBP home app

01:37Which is a home app to self-deport yourself and on March

01:42Which she did on March 11th, and then

01:45the Secretary of Homeland Security

01:48Secretary and

01:50Kristi Noem who has put out a video saying that I'm glad that she's done this and she's leaving

01:56because she's the supporter of terrorists, which is what they've been

02:01Stemming anybody who supported Palestine that the cause for Palestine

02:05So this is actually a worrisome development because now we will be seeing a series of

02:12deportations and

02:15Cancellations or revocations not just of visas, but also of green cards, so

02:21Expect a lot of turmoil and turbulence in the coming days when it comes to Indian students or Indian green card holders

02:30The green cards or the visas being revoked and then being sent home

02:35Which is back to India not just her there was another student

02:39Palestinian from West Bank whose student visa has also been revoked. Again, you'll have to wait and see where she's sent

02:47Right. Thank You Geeta Mohan our foreign affairs editor putting things in perspective and also saying that this is just the beginning

02:53We could see a lot more students coming back from the United States of America

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