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State Department says it has revoked over 250,000 visas since Trump took office

The State Department says it has revoked more than 250,000 visas since January 2025 for crimes, fraud, birth tourism and security concerns. The figures come from a department official and spokesperson, and coverage so far is from two right-leaning outlets.

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The State Department says it has revoked more than 250,000 visas since President Donald Trump took office. A State Department official told Fox News Digital the revocations covered visa holders who broke visa terms, committed crimes, called for violence against the U.S. or Americans, defrauded Americans, abused the immigration system or endangered national security. Of the total, 2,300 were linked to birth tourism, where pregnant foreign nationals travel to the U.S. to give birth so the child receives citizenship.

Spokesperson Tommy Pigott called the figure "a historic milestone" and said vetting is being done "on a scale never seen before". On Monday the department revoked visas of 27 Latin American officials, former officials and their families from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru over corruption accusations. Over the summer the administration began preparing to revoke B1 and B2 visas held by as many as 200,000 foreigners who later sought asylum; Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said Americans were "fed up" with "bogus asylum claims".

In August the department also revoked more than 175,000 visas, mostly after law enforcement encounters such as assault, drunk driving, theft and drug crimes, the agency said. The figures come from the department and are not independently verified in the coverage, which gives no breakdown of the total by reason beyond the birth tourism number.

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Framing
Presents the figure as a record achievement of the administration's tougher vetting, led by the department's own statements. The New York Post piece carries a Fox News byline and near-identical text.
Emphasis
Crime, fraud, national security and birth tourism as reasons; Pigott's and Landau's quotes.
Leaves out or plays down
No outside experts, critics, affected visa holders or independent verification; little detail on how many revocations were contested or how the total splits by category.
Charged language
“mass immigration vetting crackdown”“bogus asylum claims”“historic milestone”
For example
“EXCLUSIVE: State Department revokes over 250,000 visas in broad immigration vetting crackdown” — Fox News
“Revocations target criminal activity, birth tourism, fraud and national security threats on a historic scale.” — New York Post