The department stated that the revocations targeted foreign nationals who had “violated the terms of their visas, committed crimes, called for violence against U.S. citizens, defrauded Americans, abused our immigration system, or endangered national security.” According to the department, the “majority” of the visas were revoked due to “criminal activity.”
Data have shown, however, that the majority of the people who have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the second Trump Administration have had no criminal convictions. The Administration’s immigration enforcement tactics, meanwhile, have drawn widespread outcry and official pushback, with courts striking down a number of its moves as violating longstanding laws and protests breaking out around the country following the killings of multiple U.S. citizens.
“The Trump Administration is protecting our nation and its citizens by upholding the highest standards of national security and public safety through our visa process,” a State Department spokesperson tells TIME in a statement, saying that the Secretary of State has “broad discretionary authority to revoke visas.”
People accused of “criminal activity”
It listed “assault, driving under the influence, theft, and drug crimes” as the “leading causes,” while noting that a “significant share” of the cancellations were also due to “reckless driving, sexual assault, child abuse, fraud and embezzlement, and other crimes.”
Multiple other people whose visas were revoked, it said, were involved in fraud schemes—which Trump has made it a major focus of his second term agenda to c. One person “built a company on lies,” the department alleged, “faking revenue and fooling investors to swindle millions of dollars from clients.” In another of the examples it offered, the department said the visa holder “helped orchestrate a massive Medicaid scam – billing for over $5 million of fake services.”
In one notable instance, the President accused Somalis in Minnesota of being involved in a welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota amid his immigration crackdown in the state, marking just the latest instance in which Trump has gone after the state’s sizable Somali community. “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. Democrats have condemned Trump’s targeting of the community.
People who “celebrated” Charlie Kirk’s death
Kirk, the founder of the conservative youth activist group Turning Point USA and a friend of Trump’s, was shot and killed while he was hosting an event at Utah Valley University in September. Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Kirk’s killing, was arrested after a 33-hour manhunt.
The State Department indicated at the time that it may withhold—or revoke—visas from non-citizens who made social media posts making light of Kirk’s shooting.
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement to news outlets when asked for comment on Landau’s post that "this Administration does not believe that the United States should grant visas to persons whose presence in our country does not align with U.S. national security interests."
“Aliens who take advantage of America’s hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed,” the department wrote.
The State Department credited Secretary of State Marco Rubio with identifying “numerous” foreign nationals who it characterized as “deportable on foreign policy grounds.”
The Trump Administration has reportedly been moving to remove Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, and the President has suggested that he would turn his attention to the country after the war in Iran has been resolved. In February, the U.S. and Israel forced a different regime change when they launched their initial wave strikes against Iran, in which the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, was killed.
“Wishing violence upon the President of the United States and characterizing Americans as one's enemy are not protected activities that entitle a foreign national to remain in the United States,” the department spokesperson says to TIME.
The department said that a U.S. embassy in North Africa revoked the visas of over 100 “birth tourist” parents, who intentionally give birth in the U.S. so that their children receive citizenship status.
Trump attempted to take executive action to limit those privileges significantly, but the Supreme Court deemed the move unconstitutional and struck it down. Since that ruling, however, the Trump Administration has continued his efforts to restrict the law. The Department of Justice, the same day as the Supreme Court decision, said that it would “prioritize the investigation and prosecution of birth tourism schemes.” And last week Trump signed two new executive orders targeting birthright citizenship.
Though the State Department did not include any mention of it in its Monday release, the Trump Administration has also revoked thousands of student visas.
Rubio said in August, roughly seven months after Trump returned to office, that more than 6,000 student visas had been revoked in that time.
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