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Marco Rubio will use AI to revoke student visas of pro-Palestine protesters.

The new State Department program, called “Catch and Revoke,” will use AI to review the social media accounts of tens of thousands of students who are in the US on visas, Axios reports. State Department sources tell Axios that officials plan on combing through internal databases to see if any international students were arrested in pro-Palestine demonstrations since October 2023 — and that the department is working with the Department of Homeland Security to ensure a “whole of government and whole of authority approach.”

Rubio, the new Secretary of State, has been calling for the revocation of student visas for pro-Palestine protesters since October 2023.