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U.S. Says Foreigners’ Visas Revoked Over Charlie Kirk Social Media Comments


In yet another clampdown on speech in the U.S., the Trump Administration announced Tuesday that it has revoked the visas of six foreign nationals over remarks they made online after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

In a series of X posts, the State Department said the U.S. “has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans” and that it had identified visa holders who “celebrated” Kirk’s death. The thread included the social media posts or comments in question, with the users’ names redacted and identified only by their nationalities, followed by “Visa revoked.”

According to the thread, an Argentine national said Kirk “deserved” to burn in hell, a Mexican national said “there are people who would make the world better off dead,” and a Brazilian national said Kirk “DIED TOO LATE.” It also included examples from a South African, a German, and a Paraguayan. It’s unclear if the visa-holders were currently in the U.S. when their visas were revoked.

The announcement of visa revocations came shortly after President Donald Trump posthumously awarded Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S.’s highest civilian honor, at the White House on Tuesday.

It follows Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau’s post on X the day after Kirk’s death last month, saying that he was “disgusted to see some on social media praising, rationalizing, or making light of the event” and urged the public to “bring such comments by foreigners to my attention” so that U.S. consular officials could "undertake appropriate action.”

“It isn’t just about Charlie Kirk,” Secretary Marco Rubio said on Sept. 15. “ If you’re a foreigner and you’re out there celebrating the assassination of someone who was speaking somewhere, I mean, we don’t want you in the country. Why would we want to give a visa to someone who think it’s good that someone was murdered in the public square? That’s just common sense to me.”

Kirk was fatally shot during a speaking event at a Utah university on Sept. 10, and the Trump Administration and the political right quickly blamed his death on the left.

Vice President J.D. Vance encouraged people to report anyone celebrating Kirk’s death: “Call them out, and hell, call their employer.” People like MSNBC commentator Matthew Dowd were fired from their jobs over comments, and late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel had his show temporarily taken off the air.

Critics have described the moves as a crackdown on free speech—ironically coming from an Administration that has promised to protect free speech. Trump himself signed an executive order upon taking office for his second term that called government censorship “intolerable,” barring federal employees from “conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen.” And Rubio said in May that freedom of speech sets the U.S. apart “as a beacon of freedom around the world,” as the State Department announced visa restrictions then on foreign nationals who “censor Americans,” including over social media posts.
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The Trump Administration has increasingly surveilled people’s social media activity, both inside and outside of government.

Nearly 300 Pentagon employees were investigated over Kirk-related online posts. Three employees were “in the process of either being kicked out or leaving the military,” the Washington Post reported earlier this month. A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee and a Secret Service employee were also put on leave following comments related to Kirk last month.

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