The State Department said Thursday that it’s reviewing the records of more than 55 million foreigners who hold valid U.S. visas for potential revocation or deportable violations of immigration rules.
In a written answer to a question posed by The Associated Press, the department said that all U.S. visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting” with an eye toward any indication that they could be ineligible for the document.
Should such information be found, the visa will be revoked and, if the visa holder is in the United States, he or she would be subject to deportation.
The department said it was looking for indicators of ineligibility including visa overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organization.
“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 said.
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Gee, somehow I don’t believe that they’ll only be looking for instances of “visa overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organization.”
This sounds bad and scary (and it certainly is) but this is a pathetic birdchested move to try and posture power that they don’t have.
ICE and all of the ghouls involved in this administration are evil and have caused so much needless misery, but it’s only a fraction of what they set out to do.
They promised thirty-MILLION deportations lmao Just completely untenable.
They want people to think they are all-powerful and scary to extinguish hope and opposition. Don’t give that to them.
When these losers are gone, and they will be eventually, we will all form an orderly queue to piss on their graves
Seems like a good and necessary use of resources; much better than us having food, shelter, and healthcare /s
but why? WHY??????????
They’ll move onto natural born citizens next, and they’ll just clear out anyone who isn’t MAGA (joking but also kinda not).
“We just want them to come the right way!”
*So that was a lie.*
Brain drain.
Great use of tax dollars /sarcasm
What is wrong with these people?!
FILES
I think everyone should make a ballpark estimate of how accurate they expect the Trump administration to be in these “evaluations” and then multiply that percentage by 55 million.
“all U.S. visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting” with an eye toward any indication that they could be ineligible for the document”
should read
“all U.S. visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting” with an eye toward any indication that they could be voting democrat”
They can’t come up with enough people to fill their “illegal” quota so now they have to find legal visa holders, it’s a slippery slope.