Trump Admin Launches Review Of 55 Million Visa Holders For Possible Deportation

The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday that it would start reviewing every visa holder in the United States to determine if they have committed any offenses that could trigger deportation.

An immigrant with a U.S. visa who is deemed ineligible due to violations, such as “indicators of overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organization,” will be deported, the State Department stated.

“We review all available information as part of our vetting, including law enforcement or immigration records or any other information that comes to light after visa issuance indicating a potential ineligibility,” the department added.

“Every single student visa revoked under the Trump Administration has happened because the individual has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the United States,” the State Department official account posted on Facebook.

“The State Department issued close to 11 million temporary visas, which do not include permanent residency or ‘green cards,’ during the 2024 fiscal year,” The Washington Post reported. “ICE is on track to deport over 400,000 illegal immigrants by the end of President Trump’s first year in office,” The New York Post added.

Commenting on the amount of time it will take to perform the necessary investigations, a senior State Department official declared, “Time is not my concern, the security of Americans is.”

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On Thursday, a federal judge nominated to her position by former President Joe Biden ruled in favor of immigrants from Afghanistan, Burma, Iran, Somalia, and Togo, saying that the State Department could not use President Donald Trump’s travel ban to deny visas to foreigners. However, the ruling still permitted immigration authorities to reject them at a port of entry and airline officials to refuse to allow them on a plane.

One major impact of the current Trump administration’s policies on illegal immigration has been a startling plunge in the foreign-born population in the U.S., and it’s the most significant six-month decline ever in the same year, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

The foreign-born population declined an astonishing 2.2 million from January to July, CIS reported, estimating the number of illegal immigrants fell by 1.6 million in the same period. CIS based its estimates on an analysis of raw data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Current Population Survey (CPS). CIS also estimated the total illegal immigrant population at 14.2 million in July based on the January 2025 CPS. CIS defined illegal immigrants as people with “pending defensive asylum applications, those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), those with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and parolees.”