{"id":19373,"date":"2025-10-23T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=19373"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:37:34","slug":"trump-administration-revokes-6-visas-over-comments-about-charlie-kirk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=19373","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration revokes 6 visas over comments about Charlie Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The State Department said Tuesday it has revoked the visas of six people for making incendiary social media comments about the assassination of conservative activist\u00a0Charlie Kirk<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

The six people \u2014 none of whom were named \u2014 hailed from Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Germany and Paraguay, the department said in a series of\u00a0X posts. Some of them made comments that suggested Kirk deserved to be killed. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans,\u201d the State Department wrote on X. \u201cThe State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk.\u201d<\/p>\n

The State Department did not specify whether any of the people are currently in the U.S. or what types of visas they held. CBS News has reached out to the department for further information.<\/p>\n

A day after Kirk was killed on a Utah college campus, a top State Department official\u00a0vowed to take\u00a0\u201cappropriate action\u201d against any visa-holders who praise or make light of Kirk\u2019s death \u2014 and invited people to send in any concerning posts that they see.<\/p>\n

Days later, Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u00a0said, \u201cvisa revocations are under way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kirk was shot and killed on Sept. 10 while speaking to students at Utah Valley University for an event put on by Turning Point USA, a group he co-founded. Authorities said the gunman shot Kirk using a rifle from the roof of a nearby campus building.<\/p>\n

Following a two-day manhunt, a 22-year-old Utah man identified as Tyler Robinson was arrested in the killing. State prosecutors\u00a0have charged<\/span>\u00a0Robinson with aggravated murder.<\/p>\n

The revocations are part of a\u00a0wider crackdown<\/span>\u00a0on comments that mock or celebrate Kirk\u2019s death. The\u00a0Pentagon<\/span>\u00a0and the\u00a0Secret Service<\/span>\u00a0have sidelined service members or agents who wrote negative social media posts about Kirk, and Vice President JD Vance has encouraged people to call the employers of anybody who celebrates Kirk\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has sought to revoke visas in other circumstances, too. It is pushing to deport several\u00a0international students<\/span>\u00a0who are linked to campus protests against Israel\u2019s war in the Gaza Strip, accusing them of antisemitic rhetoric, which the students have denied. And it\u00a0revoked\u00a0Colombian President Gustavo Petro\u2019s visa last month for encouraging U.S. troops to disobey President Trump\u2019s orders during a protest in New York.<\/p>\n

Social media comments are also being monitored by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency responsible for processing immigration and naturalization applications. In August, USCIS directed its officials to\u00a0investigate applicants for \u201canti-American views and activities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been such a large-scale espousing of foreign terrorist ideology, whether it\u2019s Hamas or another organization, that has been matched with a clear desire by these elements to trample on the right of other people around them,\u201d USCIS Director Joseph Edlow told CBS News in an interview on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

When asked whether he\u2019s talking about legally protected speech, Edlow said, \u201cPeople are free to make whatever statements they want on social media or anywhere else and anyone who, you know, doesn\u2019t support the same candidate that I support.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is not what we\u2019re talking about here \u2026 we\u2019re talking about people who are actively supporting that violent overthrow of this country or otherwise providing material support to terrorist organizations across the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s legal power to deny or revoke visas on speech grounds is an unresolved question,\u00a0Eugene Volokh, a UCLA professor emeritus of law who has written extensively about the First Amendment, told CBS News last month. The Supreme Court has\u00a0ruled\u00a0that the government has broad latitude to refuse to admit people into the country, but whether federal officials can deport people who are already in the U.S. due to their speech is less clear.<\/p>\n

Volokh<\/span>\u00a0said noncitizens \u201chave the same First Amendment protections against, say, criminal punishment or civil liability as citizens do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when it comes to the question of deportation or exclusion from the country in the first place, the rules turn out to be unsettled,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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