{"id":318125,"date":"2026-08-10T22:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318125\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T22:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:08:20","slug":"trump-state-department-announces-175k-visas-have-been-yanked-in-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318125\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump State Department announces 175K visas have been yanked in second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department announced on Monday that it has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/19\/us-news\/state-department-revokes-over-6k-student-visas-including-hundreds-for-support-for-terrorism\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revoked more than 175,000 visas during President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0administration <\/a>so far.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes less than two years since Trump started his second term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder President Trump, the United States Department of State has revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals who violated the terms of their visas, committed crimes, called for violence against US citizens, defrauded Americans, abused our immigration system, or endangered national security,\u201d the\u00a0State Department\u00a0noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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. A significant share of visas were revoked for reckless driving, sexual assault, child abuse, fraud and embezzlement, and other crimes,\u201d according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>The department pointed to some examples of individuals who allegedly committed heinous crimes.<\/p>\n<p>It indicated some of the individuals whose visas were revoked included a \u201cforeign national who was charged with felony rape and sexual battery \u2013 including of a victim who was mentally disabled\u201d and a \u201cforeign national charged with felony kidnapping, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation of a minor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The department also pointed to the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/06\/us-news\/trump-signs-new-executive-order-to-ban-birth-tourism-after-birthright-citizenship-defeat-at-supreme-court\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> issue of birth tourism.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40271381\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/speaks-us-secretary-state-marco-136768710.jpg\" alt=\"President Trump speaks at an American Mining Industry Roundtable while Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on.\" class=\"wp-image-40271381\"  \/>President Trump speaking at a White House event with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Aug. 7, 2026. MATT KAMINSKY\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA US embassy in North Africa revoked over 100 visas for \u2018birth tourist\u2019 parents who came to the United States primarily to give birth so their children would get US citizenship,\u201d the department noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder President Trump and\u00a0Secretary Rubio\u2019s\u00a0leadership, the State Department will continue to identify, investigate, and revoke the visas of foreign nationals who threaten the safety of the American people. A US visa is a privilege, not a right. The Department remains committed to using every tool available to protect our communities from those who abuse it,\u201d the department declared.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Nicholas Kalman contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0administration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,23089,9,11,10,49,51,50,87,18538,58,34728],"class_list":["post-318125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-marco-rubio","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-politics","tag-state-department","tag-us-news","tag-visas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}