The Trump administration has revoked more than 300,000 visas since the president returned to office, a pace State Department officials say outstrips any prior administration and targets crime, fraud, and national-security risks.

The Post reported that the total cleared that mark after the 47th president took office last year, with the State Department confirming the scale of the crackdown from Washington.

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott put the figure in blunt terms and tied it to a clear enforcement line: foreigners who break the law, commit fraud, or undercut national security do not get a free pass.

Last month the department had already confirmed as many as 250,000 revocations since January 2025. The newer total shows the effort did not slow. Officials say the pace has accelerated so far in 2026.

That surge fits a wider Trump-era push on immigration enforcement, including earlier State Department moves that revoked more than 175,000 visas under continuous vetting.

A State Department official said the revocations followed criminal activity, threats to public safety, or immigration violations such as fraud or misrepresentation. At least 4,000 visas were yanked from foreign nationals “who engage in or facilitated birth tourism.”

Crime drove a large share of the 2025 pullbacks

The 2025 breakdown shows what kinds of cases drove the removals. A quarter of visas pulled that year were for assaults or related crimes. Another 22 percent were yanked for driving under the influence.

Theft accounted for 7 percent. Substance abuse or distribution made up another 7 percent. Those shares point to ordinary public-safety offenses, not paperwork disputes alone.

Pigott framed the numbers as historic in speed and scale.

"With over 300,000 revocations, the Trump administration has revoked more visas at a faster pace than any administration in history."

He followed with the administration’s core message on who stays and who goes.

"Let the message be clear: we have zero tolerance for foreigners here on visas who break the law, commit fraud, or undermine our national security. We are taking, and will continue to take, action to keep our borders, and our nation, secure."

Nationalities of those stripped of visas were not immediately clear in the reporting. The mechanism of each pull was also left at a high level: consequence for listed categories of misconduct, not a case-by-case public docket.

Prior mass-cancellation plans set the stage

The latest total lands after earlier signaling that the department was preparing large-scale cancellations, including plans described as the largest mass visa cancellation effort in U.S. history when officials moved to revoke about 200,000 visas.

Bureau of Consular Affairs figures underscore how sharp the shift has been. That bureau vetted just 23,000 cases last year, a fraction of the revocation count now tied to Trump’s second term.

Voters who wanted lawful status enforced and criminal aliens removed are seeing the machinery run harder than under prior leadership. Visa status is a privilege. It is not a shield for assault, DUI, theft, drug crimes, fraud, or birth-tourism schemes.

The same hard line has shown up elsewhere in the immigration system, where Trump immigration judges denied 440,000 asylum claims in 19 months and outpaced the prior eight years combined.

Birth tourism and border security stay in the crosshairs

The birth-tourism subset matters for a simple reason. At least 4,000 revocations hit people who engaged in or facilitated travel aimed at securing U.S. birthright citizenship for a child, then leaving. That practice turns American citizenship rules into a loophole for foreign nationals gaming the system.

Pigott’s statement links those cases to the broader goal of secure borders and a secure nation. The department is not treating visa abuse as a clerical error. It is treating it as a grounds for removal of the privilege.

Foreign-policy pressure from the administration has run on a parallel track, from tougher consular screening to high-profile moves such as when Rubio expelled Iranian negotiators from New York amid wider national-security signaling.

Open questions remain. The precise day-by-day tally inside the “more than 300,000” band was not broken out beyond the prior “as many as 250,000” checkpoint. Full category totals for every ground across the whole second-term window were not published in the account. Primary data tables behind the announcement were not attached for public review in the report.

What is not in doubt is the direction. Since January 2025 the count climbed through the quarter-million mark and past 300,000. Crime categories dominated the 2025 slice that was detailed. Birth tourism alone cost thousands of visas. The spokesman says the work continues.

Americans asked for an immigration system that punishes lawbreaking instead of papering over it. These revocations are what that demand looks like in practice.