The State Department said it has revoked the visas of at least six people for their comments on the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The agency revoked visas from nationals of countries including Argentina, South Africa and Mexico, the department said in a social-media post Tuesday. The department didn’t say if the people were in the country at the time their visas were revoked and didn’t specify what kinds of visas they held or when the visas were revoked.
In one screenshot shared by the agency, a person identified as an Argentine national said Kirk “devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric.” A German national wrote “when fascists die, democrats don’t complain,” according to the post.
“The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans,” the department said.
You may wonder if the State Department has assigned people to go through the social media feeds of every visa holder, which actually wouldn’t be surprising. But no. They don’t need to:
Christopher Landau, the deputy secretary of state, said the day after Kirk’s death that he had directed consular officials to “undertake appropriate action” after seeing social-media posts that glorified violence.
“Please feel free to bring such comments by foreigners to my attention so that the @StateDept can protect the American people,” Landau said in a post on social media.
They’ve got American citizens informing on their neighbors just like the Stasi. It’s a money saver.