{"id":75427,"date":"2025-09-12T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75427"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:18:28","slug":"us-threatens-visa-revocations-over-praise-of-charlie-kirk-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/12\/us-threatens-visa-revocations-over-praise-of-charlie-kirk-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"US Threatens Visa Revocations Over Praise of Charlie Kirk Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department has warned it will revoke visas of foreigners who glorify the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, assassinated during a university event in Utah on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said on Thursday that consular officials had been directed to act against social media users promoting violence or hate.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on X, Landau condemned posts that praised or mocked the 31-year-old Trump ally\u2019s death, urging users to flag such content for review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForeigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk, a prominent figure among young conservatives, was shot dead while addressing students, an incident that has fueled the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on immigration and visa oversight.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department has already revoked over 6,000 student visas this year for overstays and legal violations.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also prioritized revoking visas of individuals linked to anti-Israel protests on U.S. campuses, citing a law that allows cancellations on foreign policy grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Visa applicants are now required to keep their social media accounts public for vetting, a policy critics say contrasts with Washington\u2019s condemnation of European curbs on online speech, particularly against far-right groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda &nbsp; The U.S. State Department has warned it will revoke visas of foreigners who glorify the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, assassinated during a university event in Utah on Wednesday. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said on Thursday that consular officials had been directed to act against social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75429,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75427\/revisions\/75429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}