US says it has revoked more than 300,000 visas under Trump's second term
The US State Department says it has revoked more than 300,000 visas since Donald Trump's second term began in January 2025, a sharp acceleration in the administration's immigration crackdown.
The US State Department said on Tuesday that it has revoked more than 300,000 visas since Donald Trump began his second term as president in January 2025, marking a sharp escalation of the administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown, Reuters reported from Washington.
Spokesman Tommy Pigott announced the figure on X, declaring that the administration “has revoked more visas at a faster pace than any administration in history” and that it had “zero tolerance for foreigners here on visas who break the law, commit fraud, or undermine our national security”.
The pace of revocations has quickened dramatically. An update issued on 10 August put the figure at just over 175,000, and the New York Post reported the total had already reached 250,000 last month.
At least 4,000 of the revocations targeted foreign nationals who “engage in or facilitated birth tourism”, a State Department official told the Post; the nationalities of those affected were not immediately clear. Of the visas pulled in 2025, a quarter were for assault-related crimes, 22% for driving under the influence, 7% for theft and 7% for substance abuse or distribution.
Rights advocates say the crackdown has violated due process and free speech rights, created an unsafe environment — particularly for ethnic minorities — and raised concerns about racial profiling. The administration has also enforced tighter social media screening of immigrants and visa applicants, with rights groups particularly condemning the treatment of pro-Palestinian foreign protesters and of foreigners penalised for social media comments about the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
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