(LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. State Department revoked the visas of at least six people who publicly welcomed the death of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
“The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans,” wrote the State Department, currently led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, in an X post. The account went on to list a “few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.,” posting screenshots of foreign nationals who grossly insulted Kirk and celebrated his death.
“I do not give a f*** about the death of a person who devoted his entire life to spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric,” said an Argentine, who claimed that Kirk was in hell and that it is “deserved.”
An Argentine national said that Kirk “devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric” and deserves to burn in hell.
Visa revoked. pic.twitter.com/4bQoXisHsz
— Department of State (@StateDept) October 14, 2025
“Visa revoked,” the State Department remarked Tuesday.
Other foreigners who had their visas revoked included a South African who claimed Kirk “was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash,” and a Mexican who said Kirk died a “racist” and “misogynist,” and that “there are people who deserve to die. There are people who would make the world better off dead.”
A Brazilian who said Kirk “died too late” and a Paraguayan who said Kirk “was a son of a b**** and he died by his own rules,” as well as a German also had their visas cancelled.
Kirk himself argued during debates with college students that it is permissible to revoke the visas of foreign nationals for speech under certain circumstances.
Rubio last month said the standard to which foreigners who are granted U.S. visas are held “should be very high.”
“We should not be giving visas to people who are going to come to the United States and do things like celebrate the murder, the execution, the assassination of a political figure. And if they’re already here, we should be revoking their visa,” Rubio said.
8 US Code 1227: Deportable Aliens lists a plethora of reasons for deporting aliens, mostly due to law violations and for security reasons. Speech is not included among them, prompting critics to decry the State Department’s visa withdrawals as unconstitutional.
“While the government can revoke visas for many reasons, the First Amendment forbids it from doing so based on viewpoint,” said Carrie DeCell, Knight First Amendment Institute’s senior staff attorney and legislative adviser, in a press release.
