State Department Revokes Over 175,000 Visas for Criminal Activity

MARY CHASTAIN AUG 11, 2026 12:00 PM

The State Department announced it has revoked over 175,000 visas since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025.

Those foreign nationals “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.”

“The majority of these visas were revoked due to law enforcement encounters for a range of criminal activity, with assault, driving under the influence, theft, and drug crimes being the leading causes,” according to the press release. “A significant share of visas were revoked for reckless driving, sexual assault, child abuse, fraud and embezzlement, and other crimes.”

The criminals include (emphasis mine):

• A foreign national who was charged with felony rape and sexual battery – including of a victim who was mentally disabled.
• A foreign national charged with felony kidnapping, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation of a minor.
• A U.S. embassy in North Africa revoked over 100 visas for “birth tourist” parents who came to the United States primarily to give birth so their children would get U.S. citizenship.
• A foreign national charged with sodomy of a child and aggravated sexual battery.
• A foreign national charged with over a dozen counts of possessing child sexual abuse material.
• A foreign national who claimed to operate a legitimate business helping vulnerable patients access healthcare helped orchestrate a massive Medicaid scam – billing for over $5 million of fake services.
• A foreign national who came to the U.S. to teach young students and was then arrested for sexually assaulting one.

Multiple foreign nationals had their visas revoked when they celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination. One person said Kirk “died too late.

The Supreme Court recently upheld birthright citizenship, forcing Trump to find other avenues to limit birth tourism.

Trump’s executive orders narrowed the scope, targeting future births in four categories:

• Either parent of that person is an alien enemy, defined to include any member of a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
• Either parent is a foreign government employee working on behalf of a foreign government.
• Person is born in a territory or territorial waters of the United States where citizenship is not conferred by Federal statute.
• The entry of any foreign national into the United States via a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil or any effort by any foreign national to facilitate the entry of any foreign national into the United States via a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.

The DOJ also vowed to tackle birth tourism after the SCOTUS decision, describing numerous schemes foreign nationals have used to secure citizenship for their child.

“There’s more that DHS can do and the federal government can do in the visa process and the application process to try to minimize or limit the opportunity of folks coming here not to visit, not to do what they say they’re going to do on their Visa, but just to have a baby that can be a U.S. citizen,” said Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Whether the left likes it or not, birth tourism exists. Axios even admitted it: “Estimates about the number of children who’ve been the result of birth tourism range from the low thousands to the tens of thousands.”

Those are just estimates. How many are unaccounted for?

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