Trump administration says it’s reviewing all 55 million US visa holders

US State Department said it was continuously vetting each visa holders for imaginable violations.

The United States Department of State has said that it’s reviewing the records of much than 55 cardinal foreigners who clasp valid US visas for imaginable revocation oregon deportable violations of migration rules.

In a written reply to a question posed by The Associated Press, the section said connected Thursday that each US visa holders are taxable to “continuous vetting” with an oculus towards immoderate denotation that they could beryllium ineligible for the document.

Should specified accusation beryllium found, the visa volition beryllium revoked and, if the visa holder is successful the US, helium oregon she would beryllium taxable to deportation.

The section said it was looking for indicators of ineligibility including visa overstays, transgression activity, threats to nationalist safety, engaging successful immoderate signifier of “terrorist activity”, oregon providing enactment to a “terrorist organization”.

“We reappraisal each disposable accusation arsenic portion of our vetting, including instrumentality enforcement oregon migration records oregon immoderate different accusation that comes to airy aft visa issuance indicating a imaginable ineligibility,” the section said.

Since taking bureau successful January, US President Donald Trump has directed a large-scale crackdown connected migration, going aft those with ineligible presumption arsenic good arsenic undocumented migrants.

While the authorities initially said it would absorption lone connected unsafe criminals, thousands of radical are being arrested daily, with the New York Times estimating this week that the authorities is connected way to deport 400,000 radical successful 2025.

Authorities person gone aft moving immigrants done unprecedented raids of restaurants, operation sites, and farms – arsenic good arsenic successful courthouses wherever migration agents apprehension those attending civilian appointments needed to assistance legalise their status.

The authorities has besides sought to roll back humanitarian parole and Temporary Protected Status, which has fixed hundreds of thousands of radical from a scope of countries facing adverse conditions the close to unrecorded and enactment successful the US.

Student visa holders person likewise been targeted, with the State Department saying earlier this week that 6,000 students person seen their visas revoked this year. While the section maintains that those students person either “broken the instrumentality oregon expressed enactment for terrorism”, galore documented cases person progressive students who took portion successful pro-Palestinian protests oregon adjacent simply wrote an sentiment portion – each of which are protected escaped speech. Others who person seen their visas revoked, however, had not engaged successful immoderate benignant of activism.