The State Department says the Trump administration has revoked more than three hundred thousand visas since the forty-seventh president took office last year, according to a report from the New York Post, which cited a State Department official. The revocations, the official said, were carried out as consequences for criminal activity, threats to public safety, or immigration violations such as fraud or misrepresentation. At least four thousand visas were pulled from foreign nationals the official described as having "engage[d] in or facilitated birth tourism."
State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told the Post that the administration has "revoked more visas at a faster pace than any administration in history." The department had confirmed roughly a quarter of a million revocations as of last month, the report said, and the pace has accelerated in 2026 after just twenty-three thousand cases were vetted by the Bureau of Consular Affairs last year. According to the Post, a quarter of the visas pulled in 2025 were tied to assaults or related crimes, twenty-two percent to driving under the influence, seven percent to theft, and seven percent to substance abuse or distribution.
The New York Post, which has 4.2 million followers on X, carried the story to its audience on Tuesday. The figures have circulated alongside separate reporting on the administration's immigration enforcement. NTD reported that hundreds of Chinese nationals have lost their visas as authorities target suspected immigration abuse and networks profiting from birth tourism. BusinessToday reported that legal immigration has fallen by half under Trump, from fifty-two thousand to twenty-six thousand a month, with policies making it all but impossible to immigrate from ninety-one countries and reducing available immigrant visas from another sixty-one. And Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner sent a letter to top Trump administration officials rebuking the administration for what they called "chaos" over student visas, asking how many nonimmigrant visas the State Department has revoked for students attending schools in Virginia and on what justification.
The visa figures landed the same week that CBS News, which has 9.8 million followers on X, turned its cameras on American tourists in Paris as France reeled from weekend protests. CBS News correspondent Aidan Stretch spoke with visitors who said they had been following the State Department's advisory urging Americans to avoid demonstration areas, as well as curfews the department was advising on.
One tourist described the advisory as unnerving. "It has scared me a little bit and also the curfews. It was advising again about that as well to a little terrifying," the visitor said. Another said the group had been in touch with their hotel. "We were a little bit nervous. We were staying at our hotel in New Orleans, so we've been emailing them, asking them what's going on, is it safe for us to come," the tourist said. "They were very generous and assured of that. It wasn't as big as we would see on the news or on the internet, so we go stay to come. I mean, this is a dream country to be for us."
Others described what they had seen on television and online. "You had seen some of the videos from the protests. We've got a lot of buyers, seen burnings, and against the police, and yeah, it's horrible," one visitor said. Another added: "Loody is getting burned, so it looks worse than it is, I guess, on TV or online. But when I was driving in, there was still a lot of glass on the ground, and a lot of just sadness. You could tell that people were just sad."
One tourist credited the French public with easing the anxiety. "Thankfully, the French people have just been so kind that I have not felt any sort of fear at all. I was apprehensive coming in, but since the people around are not showing the alarm, I'm just taking cues from them," the visitor said.
Next News Network could not independently verify the State Department's revocation figures or the details of the protests described by tourists in Paris.
The reaction spread across outlets with large followings. The New York Post's audience of 4.2 million received the revocation numbers directly, while CBS News' audience of 9.8 million saw the Paris interviews and the advisory language about avoiding demonstrators. NTD and BusinessToday carried the immigration enforcement story to their own readers, and the Kaine-Warner letter added a congressional dimension, with the senators pressing the administration for specifics on student visa revocations in Virginia.
The through-line in each case is the same: official action from Washington meeting public reaction abroad and at home. The State Department's advisory for Americans in France, the revocation totals, and the senators' demands for justification all describe a government moving quickly on immigration and travel policy, while the tourists in Paris describe a city they found calmer than the images they had seen.
Our Take
The numbers coming out of the State Department are the story the legacy press will not tell straight: three hundred thousand visas revoked, at a faster clip than any administration in history, with a quarter tied to assaults and more than a fifth to drunk driving. That is not a rounding error or a bureaucratic housekeeping measure. That is the federal government finally treating a visa as a privilege granted to those who respect our laws, not an entitlement handed out and never revisited. Tommy Pigott's statement puts the contrast plainly, and the Post deserves credit for reporting it while other outlets buried it.
The Paris interviews are instructive for a different reason. American tourists described curfews, glass on the ground, and videos of burnings, yet also said the French people treated them with kindness and that the alarm on the ground did not match the alarm on the screen. That is what happens when a country's leaders lose control of the streets and the public learns to live around it. The State Department's advisory was prudent, and the tourists who checked with their hotels before traveling did exactly what responsible travelers should do.
What the senators from Virginia are really demanding is a justification for enforcing the law. Kaine and Warner want to know how many student visas were revoked and why. The answer is that the State Department has said plainly why: fraud, misrepresentation, criminal conduct, threats to public safety. If student visa holders are not engaged in any of that, they have nothing to worry about. The "chaos" the senators describe is the sound of a system being restored to its proper function. The American people elected a president to enforce immigration law, and the revocation totals suggest that is precisely what is happening.
