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Rubio announces restrictions on visas, targets left-wing groups
Just the News ^ | July 16, 2026 | Ben Whedon

Posted on 07/17/2026 7:01:23 AM PDT by Twotone

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday announced the imposition of visa restrictions in a bid to target violent, far-left terrorist groups.

The announcement coincided with an international summit in which Rubio met with representatives of dozens of nations and warned of growing far-left extremism. He further invoked international coalitions to stop the Islamic State as a model for them to emulate.

"Today, in support of National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 and ongoing U.S. Government efforts to disrupt networks fomenting political violence before they escalate to criminal action, the Department of State is announcing a new visa restriction policy that targets members of Far-Left Terrorist and other aligned groups who have supported or incited acts of terrorism; supported violent criminal activity; participated in economic sabotage; financed, recruited, or provided logistical support for violent or criminal actions committed by Far-Left Terrorist and other aligned groups; and/or facilitated the convergence of Far-Left Terrorist and other aligned networks for the purposes of violent action," Rubio wrote in a statement.

Far-left extremism has been increasingly in the eye of the administration since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot during an open-air event at Utah Valley University in September 2025. His alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, was reportedly motivated by Kirk's comments criticizing transgender ideology.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 202607; assassinationplots; charliekirk; farleftextremism; kirk; leftwingextremism; leftwingviolence; marcorubio; ministerial; nationalsecurity; nspmemo7; nspmemorandum7; rubio; socialism; socialists; visas

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1 posted on 07/17/2026 7:01:23 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

About time

Safety is needed.


2 posted on 07/17/2026 7:04:50 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Twotone

What took so long? Lawyers?


3 posted on 07/17/2026 7:05:13 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Twotone

no details:

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/07/visa-restriction-policy-targeting-far-left-terrorist-and-other-aligned-groups/


4 posted on 07/17/2026 7:05:48 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Twotone

No visas for pregnant women!


5 posted on 07/17/2026 7:17:59 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Twotone

Good link to Rubio’s comments at this ministerial/summit on leftist extremism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kv_XUGS0qs&t=115s


6 posted on 07/17/2026 8:18:32 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Brian Griffin

see

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4388309/posts

and more:

Direct YouTube Link: Secretary Rubio delivers opening remarks at the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kv_XUGS0qs&t=115s


7 posted on 07/17/2026 8:20:27 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Twotone

We’ve have way too many foreign pieces of crap. Especially Muzzies, Non-Native American Injuns, Africans, and Caribbeaner Socialist Squawd princess skanks from Jamaica and Haiti and Somali pirates and theives. THEY are destroying OUR country


8 posted on 07/17/2026 9:12:12 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The crap going on in America ISN'T immigration. It's friggin' colonization. America is falling.)
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