The Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned, in a segment broadcast by Fox News and amplified by the official State Department account on X this Friday, that any foreigner who commits crimes or violates the conditions of their visa will face immediate revocation of the document and deportation.
The statement comes at a time when the Trump administration has accumulated over 175,000 revoked visas since the beginning of its second term on January 20, 2025, as confirmed by State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott in an interview with Breitbart News Daily this Thursday.
Pigott detailed that the revocations are grouped into three categories: violations of visa terms, commission of crimes, and threats to national security.
"The three most common offenses that led to revocations are driving under the influence of alcohol, assault, and robbery," the spokesperson specified, according to the report from Breitbart.
In the same program on Fox News, Chad Wolf, former acting Secretary of Homeland Security during Trump's first term, supported Rubio's stance with an argument that the administration has repeated since the beginning.
"It is a privilege and not a right. The U.S. government provides this administrative function to allow individuals to enter the country, and there is a set of rules that must be followed. If the Secretary of State believes they have been violated, he can revoke those visas," he stated.
The figure of 175,000 revocations marks a significant increase compared to the more than 100,000 that were confirmed in January 2026, which already included nearly 8,000 student visas and 2,500 skilled worker visas.
"This figure has risen from 100,000 in December. This demonstrates the need for the program and the results of our continuous verification system," noted Pigott.
This migratory offensive is supported on several simultaneous fronts. The federal appeals court for the District of Columbia greenlit accelerated deportations of migrants who entered the country under Biden-era humanitarian parole programs on Monday, determining that the plaintiffs lacked standing.
Additionally, on August 6, Trump signed the executive order "Ending Birth Tourism," which authorizes the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security to deny visas and expel those who enter the country for that purpose.
Rubio announced days later that a specialized task force had already revoked over 600 visas in just one month of operations.
For Cubans, the impact of these policies is direct and cumulative. The administration suspended the issuance of new tourist, study, and work visas for nationals of the island since June 2025, and the cancellation of the CHNV humanitarian parole program affected more than 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Haiti.
By May 2026, 18 deportation operations had been carried out, resulting in 612 Cubans being returned to the island. In June, immigration courts issued 1,642 deportation orders against Cuban citizens.
Rubio has consistently maintained, at least since February 2026, that no one has a guaranteed right to a U.S. visa and that the government can revoke it when the holder acts against the national interest.
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