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

A foreign national charged with felony rape and sexual battery, including of a victim who was mentally disabled. A foreign national charged with felony kidnapping, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation of a minor. A foreign national arrested for drunk driving, domestic violence, and resisting arrest with violence. A U.S. embassy in North Africa revoked over 100 visas for “birth tourist” parents who traveled to America primarily to give birth so their children would receive automatic U.S. citizenship.

That last category — birth tourism — is the one the media consistently ignores because acknowledging it requires acknowledging that the system has been systematically exploited for decades. When the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship for children born to illegal aliens last month, billboards went up along the southern border advertising American citizenship for $4,000. The North Africa revocations are a reminder that the same exploitation happens through legitimate visa channels — people who enter legally with documentation designed to conceal their actual purpose.

Rubio said it plainly: “A U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right.” Under President Trump and Secretary Rubio’s leadership, the State Department will continue to identify, investigate, and revoke the visas of foreign nationals who threaten the safety of the American people.

This stands in direct contrast to the Biden administration’s approach, which was to minimize, excuse, and in many cases actively obstruct enforcement against foreign nationals who had overstayed or violated their visas. The results of that approach are documented: millions of illegal aliens, hundreds of thousands of visa overstays, and a systematic collapse of the concept that American law applies to everyone on American soil equally.