NewzWASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The United States (US) Government says it has revoked over 175,000 visas to foreign nationals as the Donald Trump administration establishes a task force for ending what it described as “birth tourism”. “The majority of these visas were revoked due to law enforcement encounters for a range of criminal activity, with assault, driving under the influence, theft, and drug crimes being the leading causes. It said it has revoked visas from “criminals who posed a danger to American citizens, endorsed violence against Americans, arranged illegal birth tourism schemes, or engaged in fraud”.
The department said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban migrants, “has determined that numerous foreign nationals are deportable on foreign policy grounds, including a Cuban national connected to a Cuban communist regime influence operation”. Washington said a US visa is a “privilege, not a right”, and that it “remains committed to using every tool available to protect our communities from those who abuse it”. At the same time, as legal groups file a lawsuit against President Trump’s new birthright citizenship order, the Department of State said it is using “all available tools to defend the integrity of US citizenship, ensure non-immigrant visas are used only for their lawful and intended purposes, and prevent their exploitation through birth tourism”.
“As President Trump has made clear, citizenship is not a commodity to be acquired through the calculated exploitation of US immigration laws,” added the department. It said it is “working closely with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to combat birth tourism and protect the integrity of the US immigration system”. The State Department warned that Caribbean and other foreigners who willfull…
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