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State Department Visa Crackdown: 250,000 Revoked Under Trump
The State Department visa crackdown under Donald Trump has revoked over 250,000 visas. Learn who is affected and what comes next.
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In a State Department briefing room in Washington, a spokesperson stepped to the podium and delivered a number that had been building for months: more than 250,000 visas revoked since President Donald Trump returned to office. The figure, confirmed to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, marks a historic milestone in the administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
A US visa is a privilege, not a right, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said. If you violate the terms of that privilege, you will lose it.
The State Department visa crackdown has now stripped travel and immigration privileges from a quarter-million foreign nationals, according to department officials. The revocations span crimes, visa violations, fraud, calls for violence, and national security threats.
Why It Matters
The scale of the State Department visa crackdown reflects the broadest immigration enforcement push in modern US history. It touches tourists, students, business travelers, asylum seekers, and even foreign officials. The department says the effort protects Americans. Rights advocates say it threatens free speech and due process.
In August, the department announced it had revoked more than 175,000 visas. That number has since climbed past 250,000. In January, officials had cited more than 100,000 revocations, a record at the time.
Most revocations stemmed from law-enforcement encounters involving criminal activity, the department said. Assault, driving under the influence, theft, and drug offenses were the leading reasons. Reckless driving, sexual assault, child abuse, fraud, and embezzlement also featured prominently.
Specific cases cited by the department included a person charged with felony rape and sexual battery, another charged with kidnapping and human trafficking, and a person facing more than a dozen counts of possessing child sexual abuse material.
Birth Tourism and Asylum Crackdown
Among the revoked visas were 2,300 tied to birth tourism, the practice of pregnant foreign nationals traveling to the US specifically to give birth so their child automatically receives citizenship. A US embassy in North Africa revoked more than 100 visas from birth tourist parents, the department said.
Over the summer, the Trump administration began preparing to revoke business and tourist visas held by as many as 200,000 foreigners who had applied for asylum in the US. The effort targets B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 to foreigners who later sought asylum.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said Americans were fed up with bogus asylum claims. Asylum is not supposed to be a loophole to circumvent immigration laws, he wrote on X. It is supposed to provide a narrow safe harbor for persons persecuted because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
Landau noted that frivolous claims have swamped the system, which could take years to adjudicate whether applicants are entitled to asylum.
On Monday, the State Department revoked the visas of 27 Latin American officials, former officials, and their families over accusations of corruption. The officials are from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Social Media Vetting and Free Speech Concerns
The State Department visa crackdown has also expanded social media vetting and screening. The administration adopted a stricter policy on granting visas, with tightened social media review.
Some revocations involved foreign nationals who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist killed last year. One stated when fascists die, democrats do not complain. Another said he died too late.
Rights advocates and human rights experts have condemned the social media screening efforts, which they say threaten free speech and are akin to surveillance and singling out of immigrants.
A separate Guardian report described how the administration shifted to a quieter approach to immigration enforcement after federal agents fatally shot US citizen protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January. That incident marked a turning point. Large-scale street operations waned, but less visible enforcement continues to ramp up. Arrests, detentions, and forced departures have increased, putting millions more at immediate risk.
Many of those affected have legal status or ongoing cases for winning or upgrading their legal status, or years of crime-free life in the US. They are being rounded up, often with little access to due process or attorneys.
What Comes Next on (State Department visa crackdown)
Pigott said the administration would not stop until every foreign national who threatens the safety of US communities is held accountable. Every visa decision is a national security decision, he said. Through continuous vetting on a scale never seen before, we are identifying and removing those who commit crimes, support terrorism, defraud Americans, or abuse our immigration system.
Trump has also pushed to terminate birthright citizenship, though courts have opposed that effort. His administration has clamped down on commercial birth tourism instead.
The State Department visa crackdown is expected to continue. The department said it would keep using available authorities to revoke visas from people who abuse the privilege.
For the quarter-million people who have already lost their visas, and the millions more who could be next, the message from Washington is clear: the vetting will not slow down.
Back in the briefing room, the podium emptied. The number lingered.
Frequently Asked Questions (State Department visa crackdown)
How many visas has the State Department revoked under Trump?
The State Department has revoked more than 250,000 visas since President Donald Trump took office, according to spokesperson Tommy Pigott. In August, the department announced over 175,000 revocations. In January, it cited more than 100,000.
What are the main reasons for the visa revocations?
Most revocations stemmed from law-enforcement encounters involving criminal activity, including assault, driving under the influence, theft, and drug offenses. Visa violations, fraud, calls for violence, and national security threats were also cited. Birth tourism accounted for 2,300 revocations.
Who is affected by the State Department visa crackdown?
Foreign nationals with US visas, including tourists, business travelers, students, asylum seekers, and even foreign officials. The administration has targeted B1 and B2 visas held by up to 200,000 foreigners who later applied for asylum, and revoked visas of 27 Latin American officials over corruption accusations.
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Trump Says Musk Restored Starlink Access For Ukraine
Trump says Musk restored Starlink access for Ukraine’s military, but no public record shows who ordered the speed caps or on what authority.
Elon Musk has restored Starlink access for Ukraine’s armed forces after speed caps degraded Kyiv’s ability to fly attack drones and intercept Russian strikes, US President Donald Trump said on Thursday. Trump declined to confirm whether he was the one who asked.
“Bottom line, he put it back,” Trump told reporters when asked about a Wall Street Journal report that he had phoned Musk to demand the limits be lifted. “I don’t want to comment on it, whether I called or whether somebody else called, doesn’t make any difference.”
The remark is the first on-the-record confirmation from the administration that restrictions existed at all. For the previous eight days, officials in Washington had said no such order was given.
What Is Confirmed About The Starlink Access Dispute
Two documented dates anchor the timeline. On 13 October, Ukrainian officials announced that sudden restrictions on the service had left the military scrambling, Al Jazeera reported. The BBC places Ukraine’s first report of an interruption to US intelligence sharing at 14 October.
Speaking before Trump’s remarks, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the speed available to Ukrainian forces “has not been restored to 400 [km/h; 250mph] yet”. He added: “We are working on it,” and said he was waiting on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had promised information within 48 hours.
The Wall Street Journal then reported that Trump had called Musk and told him he was frustrated that speeds were still capped at around 160km/h, a limit that left Ukrainian offensive drones and interceptors unable to function against Russian attacks. The paper said the system was working more normally on Thursday, shortly after the conversation. The BBC has not verified that account and has contacted the White House and SpaceX.
Ukraine uses the civilian Starlink network and the more secure Starshield system. Both draw on roughly 10,000 satellites in low Earth orbit. Drone warfare depends on high-speed links, which is why a speed cap functions as a battlefield decision rather than a commercial one.
Two Parties, Two Accounts, No Paper Trail
The two parties closest to the switch have given accounts that do not fit together. Musk wrote on 14 October that Starshield is “owned and controlled by the US government” and that “any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS”.
Rubio said on Wednesday that neither the president nor anyone in the administration “ever requested that any changes to that system be made”. He said decisions about Starlink access are “governed by a private commercial contract as to how their stuff can be used and what speeds they’ll allow it to be used at”, adding that “the president has nothing to do with the decisions that are made by Starlink and Starshield and by Mr Musk”.
Each statement can be read as technically accurate, and that is the difficulty. No contract clause, Pentagon order or company statement has been published that establishes which party held the switch, or on what authority it was turned. The public record contains a denial, a social media post, a reported phone call and a one-line confirmation. It contains no decision trail.
John Cornyn, the Republican in his final weeks as US senator for Texas, told US media he did not believe Musk would have acted “without at least the acquiescence of the White House”. That is an assessment offered without documentation, not evidence.
The Diesel Rationale Has Not Been Shown To Hold
Trump’s pressure on Kyiv has been tied publicly to fuel prices. He has accused Ukraine of driving up diesel costs for Americans through its attacks on Russian refineries, and he faces midterm elections next month. His administration has waived some sanctions on Russia and agreed a deal to import Russian diesel, a move Ukraine and its European allies criticised.
The causal claim is thinner than the policy built on it. Analysis by the BBC, cited by the Guardian, found that the US-Israeli war on Iran and the resulting restrictions on oil exports from the Gulf likely had a greater effect on global diesel supplies than Ukrainian strikes did. No published US data has been presented to show that refinery attacks were the dominant driver of American pump prices.
What The Episode Reveals Beyond The Battlefield
Governments and humanitarian agencies outside the US alliance structure buy satellite connectivity as commercial customers. The dispute shows where their risk actually sits: not in the vendor’s goodwill, but in what a contract specifies about speed, uptime and grounds for interruption. Neither SpaceX nor the White House has disclosed those terms in this case.
That is the transferable lesson for markets in Africa and elsewhere where satellite internet is bought rather than built. A customer who is not party to the arrangement between a company and the Pentagon has no lever except escalation, and escalation requires a head of state willing to make a call. Ukraine had one. Most buyers do not.
The episode also sets a precedent that cuts both ways. If a speed cap can be applied and removed within eight days without a published order, the capability remains available for future use, and the absence of documentation makes it harder to establish accountability either way.
What To Watch
Zelensky said he expects Rubio’s answer within roughly 48 hours; whether that answer confirms or contradicts the Wall Street Journal account is the next verifiable data point. Watch also for any statement from the Pentagon, which Musk’s version of events places at the centre of the decision, and from SpaceX, which has so far said nothing publicly.
The durability of the restoration is untested. Zelensky’s own measure was a speed figure, not a press statement, and no independent monitoring of Starlink access in Ukrainian combat zones has been published. Until it is, the confirmed facts are narrow: restrictions were reported on 13 October, Trump says they are lifted, and the only documented explanation for either decision is a conversation nobody in the room will describe in full.
Frequently Asked Questions
Did Trump order the Starlink speed restrictions on Ukraine?
Trump has denied it, saying on Friday: “I don’t know if it was anybody, but it wasn’t me, and I don’t think it was Elon.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said neither the president nor anyone in the administration requested changes. Musk said limits are decided by the US military and ultimately the president. No contract clause, Pentagon order or company statement has been published to settle the question.
What is the difference between Starlink and Starshield?
Starlink is the civilian satellite internet service. Starshield is the more secure, military-grade version designed for the Pentagon. Ukraine uses both depending on what communications are needed. Both networks rely on roughly 10,000 satellites in low Earth orbit.
Has Ukraine’s Starlink access been fully restored?
Trump said on Thursday that Musk “put it back”. Earlier the same day, Zelensky said the speed used by Ukraine’s military had not yet returned to 400 km/h and that he was waiting for information from Rubio. The Wall Street Journal reported service was closer to normal after Trump’s reported call to Musk, but the BBC has not verified that account.
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Rainbow Coalition: What Nigeria’s 2027 Alliance Really Is
The Rainbow Coalition pairs Nyesom Wike’s PDP faction with the APC for 2027. Here is what is confirmed, what is disputed, and what is still forecast.
The question circulating in Nigerian political circles ahead of the 2027 general elections is blunt: what is the Rainbow Coalition, and can an alliance that campaigns for one party’s presidential candidate while sponsoring rivals against that same party in state races survive contact with voters?
The public record gives a narrower answer than the name suggests. What exists today is not a registered party, not a merger, and not a formally constituted bloc with a published manifesto. It is a campaign arrangement convened by Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, whose stated purpose is to keep President Bola Tinubu in office.
That is the confirmed core. Everything beyond it, including claims of national reach, threats issued in the coalition’s name in Benue State, and its capacity to swing 2027, remains contested, unverified, or explicitly disputed by figures inside the same parties it claims to speak for.
What the Rainbow Coalition Is, According to Its Convenor
Daily Independent reported that the grouping brings together the PDP faction led by Wike, the All Progressives Congress, a faction of the Action Alliance and a faction of the Labour Party, with its headquarters in Rivers State. Wike’s stated objective is to deliver the presidency to Tinubu, while the participating groups separately decide which candidates they back for governorship, National Assembly and state assembly seats.
None of the reporting reviewed for this article cites a published manifesto, an adopted constitution, or a registration with the Independent National Electoral Commission. That absence matters. It separates the project from Nigeria’s earlier coalitions, which rested on negotiated documents and, in one case, an entirely new registered party.
Wike’s own framing is contradictory, and he says so openly. He argues that backing Tinubu does not oblige him to back APC candidates in the states, and that he remains free to support candidates of his choice, including PDP candidates running against the APC.
That contradiction is not a loose end. It is the design. In 2023 Wike served as Coordinator of the APC Presidential Campaign Council for the FCT and Rivers State while remaining a PDP figure, a cross-party role that produced exactly the split-ticket outcome the arrangement now seeks to formalise.
Why the Governors Rejected the Arrangement
The All Progressives Congress Governors’ Forum, chaired by Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma, rejected the coalition outright. The governors argued that the dual-party arrangement would cause voter confusion, ticket splitting and parallel party structures, and would undermine official APC candidates in state and National Assembly races. They said their campaign commitment was to APC candidates at every level.
A faction of the PDP went further. Led by former Minister of Special Duties Kabiru Turaki, the faction said through spokesman Ini Ememobong that opposition parties should offer Nigerians an alternative rather than “massage their ego,” and described the Rainbow Coalition as a threat to electoral democracy that could push Nigeria toward an “electoral monarchy,” Premium Times reported.
In Benue State, the coalition’s national secretary, Austin Agada, threatened to teach Governor Hyacinth Alia “a political lesson” in 2027, according to The Nigerian Voice. Agada is also the factional APC chairman in Benue and a loyalist of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume.
The governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Kula Tersoo, replied on Wednesday by calling the threat “the ranting of an ant” and pointing to Alia’s three-year record. He also made allegations that have not been tested in any court or party tribunal: that Agada lost his polling unit in 2023, sold his vote to Senator Abba Moro of the PDP, and was later suspended by his ward executives. Those are the governor’s camp’s claims. Agada has not been reported responding to them in the coverage reviewed.
Separately, in Abuja, Wike told Abuja Municipal Area Council community leaders, women’s groups and youth groups that an all-inclusive campaign structure would be inaugurated around the coalition, with APC and PDP figures appearing together, according to a statement from his office. He warned voters against “political gamblers” and said the campaign’s case would rest on commissioned road and security projects.
A History That Cuts Against the Spin
Nigeria has run this experiment before, and the record is instructive. In 1959 the Northern People’s Congress and the National Convention of Nigerian Citizens formed the independence government; the partnership buckled under regional and ideological tension. In 1979 the National Party of Nigeria, short of a legislative majority, reached an accord with the Nigerian People’s Party that collapsed in 1981 over power struggles.
The 2015 case is the one supporters cite. The Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progressive Change, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and a breakaway PDP bloc merged into a single new party, the APC, published a manifesto, campaigned on it, and defeated an incumbent president seeking re-election.
The structural difference is plain. The 2015 project dissolved its component parties into one. The 2027 arrangement leaves every party intact and asks voters to back different parties on the same ballot. The first produced a governing majority. The second produces an accounting problem on election day.
Where the Evidence Runs Out
Critics inside the APC are not convinced the arrangement travels beyond Abuja and Rivers State. Former House of Representatives member Uchenna Igwesi called it “completely alien” to Nigerian voters and warned of “pandemonium,” while former presidential candidate Chuks Nwachuku said the project was about keeping Wike politically relevant.
Such assessments are opinions, not findings. The same applies to the coalition’s own claims of national reach. What can be checked is narrower and firmer: the composition of the founding group, the stated objective, the formal rejection by the APC governors, the PDP faction’s rebuke, and the Benue exchange. Everything else, including turnout effects, state-level defections, and whether the coalition ever appears as an entity on a ballot paper, is forecast.
The Verdict the Record Supports
The Rainbow Coalition is real as a political vehicle and unproven as an electoral machine. Its novelty is not that parties cooperate, since Nigerian coalitions have done that since independence, but that it asks voters to split their ballots deliberately, in a country where the sources themselves note that grassroots understanding of ballot mechanics is limited. Until the coalition publishes rules, registers structures and faces a vote, its strongest asset is the access of its convenor, and its strongest liability is the arithmetic it asks voters to perform.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Nigeria’s Rainbow Coalition?
It is a campaign arrangement convened by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, reported to include his PDP faction, the APC, a faction of the Action Alliance and a faction of the Labour Party, with its headquarters in Rivers State. Its stated aim is to deliver the presidency to President Bola Tinubu in 2027 while member groups back separate candidates for other offices.
Has the Rainbow Coalition been registered as a political party?
None of the reporting reviewed for this article cites a published manifesto, an adopted constitution, or registration with the Independent National Electoral Commission. It is described as a coalition of existing parties and factions, not a new party.
Who has opposed the Rainbow Coalition?
The APC Governors’ Forum chaired by Imo Governor Hope Uzodimma rejected it, citing voter confusion and ticket splitting. A PDP faction led by Kabiru Turaki called it a threat to electoral democracy. In Benue, Governor Hyacinth Alia’s spokesman dismissed threats from the coalition’s national secretary, Austin Agada, as “the ranting of an ant.”
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Starshield Restrictions: US Offers Kyiv Mixed Messages
Washington’s Starshield restrictions on Ukraine produced five contradictory accounts in a week. What the record confirms, and what remains disputed.
The Starshield restrictions placed on Ukraine’s battlefield communications last week have stopped being a technical story. They are now a story about who controls a privately built satellite network that a sovereign military depends on, and the US government cannot produce one consistent answer.
Start with what is confirmed. Starshield is SpaceX’s military-grade version of the Starlink satellite internet service and, according to France 24, the backbone of Ukraine’s drone operations and battlefield communication. The limits were applied without warning. Ukrainian commanders reported lost drones and disrupted missions. Kyiv has received no clear official explanation of who ordered the caps, or why.
Everything after that point is contested, including whether the restrictions are still in place at all.
Who Ordered The Starshield Restrictions? The Public Record Offers Five Answers
On October 14, Elon Musk posted on X that Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government, and that any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately the president.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking on the Tuesday, denied any American pullback. “We haven’t pulled anything back,” he said, before adding that “there are terms of service that ultimately need to be complied to” and that “Starlink has the option to make those decisions.” He did not say which terms Ukraine had allegedly breached.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in India on the Wednesday, said for the third time in four days that neither the president nor anyone in the administration requested changes to the system. “The president has nothing to do with the decisions that are made by Starlink and Starshield and by Mr. Musk,” he said. “That’s a private company.”
Vice President JD Vance, in Cincinnati on the Thursday, described Musk as the head of a private corporation who reasonably does not want to be caught “in the middle of what is a war between two state actors without the United States government effectively directing him on what to do.” He closed by reframing the issue: “I think it’s fundamentally what is America’s policy in Ukraine and Russia going to be.”
President Donald Trump said on the Thursday that the service was back at full speed. By the Friday he was distancing himself further. “Well, I don’t know if it was anybody, but it wasn’t me, and I don’t think it was Elon,” he told reporters. “And from what I understand, it’s the same as it’s always been.”
Read together, those statements cannot all be accurate. Musk assigns authority to the Pentagon and the president. Rubio and Hegseth assign it to a private company. Vance describes a private company while locating the real decision in US foreign policy. Trump denies ordering anything and doubts Musk did either.
One Trump remark is more revealing than the denials. Asked whether he had called to lift the cap, he replied: “You know, whether I called or whether somebody else called, doesn’t make any difference. I guess the bottom line, he put it back.” That answer treats authorship of a military-relevant decision as immaterial.
A Speed Cap That Two Sides Describe Differently
Trump says the system is restored. A senior European official familiar with conditions on the ground, speaking on Thursday on condition of anonymity, said nothing has changed, with the cap still set at about 100mph (160kph), as reported by France 24 and the Associated Press, whose account also ran in The Daily Star.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a bipartisan group of US lawmakers on the Monday that “we still face speed restrictions on Starlink and Starshield services in different parts of the front, and we still have no explanation for this. Just different strange stories.” In a Wednesday interview on Fox & Friends he said connectivity remained limited, and that Rubio had told him he would work to “unblock” the slowdown.
These accounts are incompatible. Either restoration happened and did not reach the front line, or it did not happen. Neither the Pentagon nor SpaceX has published a timeline, an order, or a technical notice. That absence is the finding.
Two further items belong in the allegation column, not the confirmed one. Zelensky has called the throttling “a planned operation,” noting that no EU country faces similar limits. He has published no supporting evidence. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal has announced a new inquiry into how the technology was slowed for Ukraine’s defences; its scope and powers have not been made public.
What The Starshield Restrictions Mean For Buyers Outside NATO
The practical lesson for governments far from this war is contractual. A state that leases commercial satellite capacity does not acquire control of it. It acquires a service agreement, and the vendor answers to its own home government and regulator. Hegseth’s undefined reference to “terms of service” is the hinge of the entire episode: the operating conditions of a wartime communications network are being treated as a private commercial matter that no one will specify.
The pattern is not unique to Ukraine. Defense News reported that as 25 Indo-Pacific armies met in Auckland in late September for the 50th Indo-Pacific Armies Management Seminar, Trump was hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington, where Ambassador David Perdue disclosed an offer to sell military weapons to Beijing. Washington officials later said no plans existed. Ryan Hass of the Brookings Institution wrote that the disclosure “puts the question to rest” on how Trump views China as a security threat. Different file, same mechanics: declaratory signals and operational decisions running on separate tracks.
Three outcomes are plausible. A congressional inquiry extracts documents and fixes accountability. The ambiguity hardens into policy, with no formal finding either way. Or Ukraine absorbs the dependency and plans around a vendor whose government will not confirm what it ordered.
The Big Picture
What separates this episode from an ordinary outage is not the speed cap. It is that a president, a vice president, a secretary of state, a defence secretary and a billionaire contractor gave five accounts of the same decision within four days, and no institution has reconciled them. The Starshield restrictions were applied to a sovereign state’s military infrastructure without a published order, and they have been discussed since without a published record. For any government weighing reliance on foreign-owned satellite constellations, that is the operative fact. Access in wartime is granted by contract and withdrawn by discretion, and the discretion does not have to be explained.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who ordered the Starshield restrictions on Ukraine?
No official document or statement has established that. Musk said on October 14 that Starshield is controlled by the US government and that limits are decided by the US military and ultimately the president. Rubio and Hegseth denied any administration role and pointed to SpaceX. Ukraine says it has never received a clear explanation.
Have the speed limits on Starshield been lifted?
That is disputed. President Trump said on the Thursday that the service is running at full speed. A senior European official said the same day that nothing had changed and the cap remained at about 100mph (160kph). Zelensky said on the Wednesday that connectivity was still limited on parts of the front.
Why does Starshield matter for countries outside NATO?
Starshield illustrates that leased commercial satellite capacity comes with operating conditions set by the vendor and its home government, not by the customer. The US defence secretary referenced ‘terms of service’ without specifying them, showing that wartime access can be restricted without a public legal finding.
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