Here are some of the groups of people who have been included in the Trump Administration’s sweeping visa cancellations, according to federal officials.
People accused of “criminal activity”
Most of the visas were revoked as a result of “law enforcement encounters for a range of criminal activity,” the State Department said.
It listed “assault, driving under the influence, theft, and drug crimes” as the “leading causes,” while noting that a “significant share” of the cancellations were also due to “reckless driving, sexual assault, child abuse, fraud and embezzlement, and other crimes.”
The department listed among its individual examples foreign nationals who it said were charged with violent and sexual offenses including instances of “rape and sexual battery – including of a victim who was mentally disabled”; kidnapping and human trafficking; domestic violence; and “sodomy of a child.”
Multiple other people whose visas were revoked, it said, were involved in fraud schemes—which Trump has made it a major focus of his second term agenda to c. One person “built a company on lies,” the department alleged, “faking revenue and fooling investors to swindle millions of dollars from clients.” In another of the examples it offered, the department said the visa holder “helped orchestrate a massive Medicaid scam – billing for over $5 million of fake services.”
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