{"id":17055,"date":"2025-09-12T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/17055\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:32:08","slug":"us-threatens-to-strip-visas-for-foreigners-over-kirk-killing-online-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/17055\/","title":{"rendered":"US threatens to strip visas for foreigners over Kirk killing online posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirk, a 31-year-old ally of President Donald Trump who has helped galvanise conservative support among young people, was shot dead during a speaking engagement yesterday at a university in Utah.<\/p>\n

The Trump Administration has moved aggressively to revoke or deny visas as part of a broader crackdown on immigration.<\/p>\n

As of mid-August, the State Department said it has rescinded 6000 student visas, mostly over legal violations including overstays or police encounters including drunk driving.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also said he is prioritising the revocation of visas of \u201clunatics\u201d who led campus protests against Israel\u2019s offensive in Gaza, using a law that allows him to remove people for going against US foreign policy interests.<\/p>\n

Under Rubio\u2019s orders, the State Department now asks all visa applicants to keep their social media profiles open for vetting.<\/p>\n

The approach comes despite outspoken criticism by the Trump Administration over restrictions on online speech in European allies, including over alleged incitement by far-right groups.<\/p>\n

-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirk, a 31-year-old ally of President Donald Trump who has helped galvanise conservative support among young people, was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15308,18936,18939,18940,2082,18934,42,8235,359,11156,18153,43,4061,1642,1523,18935,18938,13672,9939,18932,1886,18937,18931,61,1865,40,38,41,39,9938,3040,16742,18933],"class_list":["post-17055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-charlie","tag-departments","tag-encouraging","tag-flag","tag-for","tag-foreigners","tag-headlines","tag-influencer","tag-internet","tag-killing","tag-kirk","tag-news","tag-number","tag-online","tag-over","tag-posts","tag-rightwing","tag-state","tag-states","tag-strip","tag-support","tag-threatened","tag-threatens","tag-to","tag-today","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united","tag-us","tag-users","tag-visas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}