US revokes six visas over posts praising Charlie Kirk's killing

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday said it had revoked the visas of six foreign nationals after an internal review found social media posts that celebrated or rationalized the September assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The department identified the affected individuals as citizens of Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Paraguay and South Africa and said the action was part of ongoing reviews of visa holders who appeared to endorse violence against Americans.

In a post on X, the State Department said, "The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans," and published anonymized screenshots of the comments it cited as examples for the revocations. Those excerpts included an Argentine post accusing Kirk of spreading racist, xenophobic and misogynistic rhetoric; a German-language post saying, "when fascists die, democrats dont complain"; and other messages that mocked grief or suggested Kirk deserved to die. The announcement came on the same day the administration posthumously awarded Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Kirk, the cofounder of Turning Point USA, was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on September...