People who are in the United States on student visas have participated in events that left assault cases on their records.
Or burglaries cases, and DUIs, even records of support for terrorism.
And now 6,000 times, those visas have been pulled.
“Every single student visa revoked under the Trump administration has happened because the individual has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the United States,” a senior State Department official said in a statement to Fox News.
“About 4,000 visas alone have been revoked because these visitors broke the law while visiting our country, including records of assault and DUIs.”
Those whose records now includes assault – about 800 – either faced arrest or charges stemming from an assault.
Between 200 and 300 cases involved “support for terrorism,” and they engaged “in behavior such as raising funds for the militant group Hamas, which the U.S. State Department has designated as a terrorist organization,” the official told Fox.
Some of the cases that have developed so far in 2025 also are for overstays.
Rubio’s State Department yanks more than 6K student visas due to assault, burglary, support for terrorism https://t.co/WEqAEtrnWh
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 18, 2025
“The Trump administration has launched multiple initiatives aimed at cracking down on immigration and revoking visas of those attending academic institutions in the U.S.,” the Fox report explained. “Those who’ve publicly protested supporting Palestine have faced heightened scrutiny, as one example, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in May that the administration was reviewing the visa status of students.”
The Department of State said overall, about 40,000 visas have been canceled in 2025, up from 16,000 during the same time period under Joe Biden’s Washington regime.
The State Department official said the revocation of visas isn’t new.
Rubio’s State Department yanks more than 6K student visas due to assault, burglary, support for terrorismhttps://t.co/liElSgIbhp
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) August 18, 2025
But Secretary of State Marco Rubio has explained, “We’re going to continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disrupting our higher education facilities.”
According to the report, Democrats complained the Trump administration, by enforcing the law, is violating due process.
The Trump administration already has taken several steps to other accountable those who violate U.S. law, including “unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence.”
