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175,000 Visas Revoked — Criminals and Birth Tourists Are Finding Out What the New Rules Look Like

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The State Department announced Monday that, in less than two years of Trump’s second term, it has revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals who violated the terms of their stay, committed crimes, called for violence against Americans, defrauded U.S. citizens, abused the immigration system, or endangered national security.

This is what enforcing the law actually looks like — and the people screaming loudest about it are the ones who benefit most from the previous regime of selective enforcement and deliberate blindness.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the milestone on social media Monday, noting that the revocations covered foreign nationals who “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 State Department’s own fact sheet puts names — or at least categories — to the numbers:

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