Trump administration claims 300,000-plus visa revocations

The Trump administration said on Tuesday it had revoked more than 300,000 visas issued to foreign nationals, Al Jazeera reported on Oct. 20, citing a State Department spokesman's social-media post.

The tally is up from more than 175,000 in August and more than 100,000 in January, when the department described that earlier figure as a record, underscoring a faster pace of immigration enforcement.

Tommy Pigott, a State Department spokesman, said on X that the revocations applied to foreign nationals in the United States on visas who had broken the law, committed fraud or posed national-security threats.

“We have zero tolerance for foreigners here on visas who break the law, commit fraud, or undermine our national security,” Pigott said in the post, according to Al Jazeera.

Pigott said the administration would keep taking action to secure US borders and protect national security. Al Jazeera said it had contacted the State Department for comment.

The administration has also tightened visa-granting rules through expanded screening and stricter social-media vetting, according to the report. Rights advocates and human rights experts have condemned those screening efforts, saying they threaten free speech and amount to surveillance and the singling out of immigrants.