The United States State Department has revoked the visas of six foreigners over social media comments made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The announcement of the revocations came as U.S. President Donald Trump posthumously awarded Kirk with the presidential medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S., on what would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday.
The department wrote on X on Tuesday: “The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
“The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.”
It listed South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and Paraguay as the home countries of the people who had their visas revoked.
The State Department, in one post, said an Argentine national accused Kirk of “spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric and deserves to burn in hell”.
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Another person wrote in German: “when fascists die, democrats don’t complain.”
According to the department, a South African national mocked Americans grieving the loss of Kirk, saying: “they’re hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom” and alleging “he was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash.”
The State Department added that it continues to identify visa holders who it says celebrated Kirk’s assassination at a Utah university event last month.
The department had previously warned that the U.S. would take action against foreigners “praising, rationalizing, or making light” of Kirk’s death.
Since January, the Trump administration has pursued a sweeping crackdown on immigration, including increasing social media vetting and revoking thousands of student visas and aiming to tighten the duration of others.
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