Posted on 08/24/2026 5:57:59 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges.
Unless challenged or revised, the State Department is expected to announce in the coming weeks the revocation of so-called B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders have sought asylum or are now seeking asylum, according to State Department documents obtained by The Associated Press and two U.S. officials. The action will be taken in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security.
“We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently,” said State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott.
He declined to comment on the number of visas that might be revoked, saying “as the process will be ongoing, the number of revocations remains dynamic and will be done on a rolling basis.”
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Good.
It’s a start, but we need to 10x that number.
This is what I voted for.
The whole asylum system is a farce, a game immigrants are playing. Shut the whole system down, leaving the few real asylum cases to the complete discretion of the Secretary of State. No hearings, no judicial reviews. Asylum is the grant of a privilege, not a right.
The government has no Idea whether or when any H1B visa holders have left the country. Which basically means they almost all stay. Go ask your favorite AI and it will confirm this. Which means the numbers who are here are in the unknown millions. And no one cares.
How about don’t give visas to anybody from a shithole country.
Or what’s known as a good start.
…one bite at a time.
Only ARRESTS matter!
That’s A LOT of Democrat Voters!!
James Carville must be apoplectic!!
🍿🍿🍿🍿
One of the most amusing “asylum” stories, both here and in Europe, are the asylum seekers who save up money (welfare) to “vacation” back home.
Must be really dangerous vacation /s
And brought to you the last decades by...wait for it...the Uniparty! And the deep state of course.
Good. Get these liars and frauds out. The sooner the better.
While catching them and booting them out, don’t forget to check their records for welfare fraud. If so, claw back whatever $ and asset forfeiture you can. Taxpayers need that and arriving back home broke after years here discourage the round of would be cheats.
Good. Get them the hell OUT of the country.
Is South Africa a shithole country?
Send the 600,000 CCP “students” in the USA home first.
It is now.
The whole of the asylum system is a scam. According to the charter, treaty, agreement or whatever, the citizens of only two countries are eligible, Canada and Mexico. We are not first country for arrivals from anywhere else. Those are the terms, seek asylum in the first adjacent country you come to and that does not mean by sea.
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