The United States has revoked the visas of six people, four of them Latin Americans, due to criticism expressed on social media against ultraconservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead on September 10.
“The United States has no obligation to shelter foreign nationals who wish death upon Americans. The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous murder of Charlie Kirk,” the department said in X.
Among the six is an Argentine who pointed out that Kirk had dedicated his entire life to spreading racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic rhetoric and deserved to burn in hell. “Visa revoked,” the State Department announced on the social network, which did not identify the person but did share the message posted on X.
The government also revoked the visa of a Mexican man who claimed that Kirk died as a “racist and misogynist” and that he believed that “some people deserve to die” and that death makes “the world a better place.”
The Brazilian who was revoked said, according to the State Department, that Kirk died “too late,” while another affected Paraguayan maintained that the activist was “a son of a removed and died by his own rules,” according to Washington.
The other two revoked visas belonged to a German who remarked that “when fascists die, democrats don’t complain,” while the sixth person is a South African who, according to Washington, mocked the fact that there were Americans who were hurt “because the racist demonstration ended in an attempt to make him a martyr.”
The State Department emphasized that both President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will defend the country’s borders, culture, and citizens by enforcing immigration laws.
“Foreigners who take advantage of American hospitality by celebrating the murder of our citizens will be expelled,” X stressed.
Kirk was killed at an outdoor event on a Utah college campus. The alleged shooter is a 22-year-old white man identified as Tyler Robinson.
This Tuesday, the day Kirk would have turned 32, Trump posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Kirk was a leading proponent of the Trumpist “Make America Great Again” movement and, according to Vice President JD Vance, a key figure in the 2024 election campaign, in addition to helping appoint people to government positions during the Trump administration’s structuring.
His funeral, held on September 21 in Arizona, drew more than 100,000 people, including top U.S. officials, who spoke to bid him farewell.