{"id":14490,"date":"2025-10-16T08:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/state-department-revokes-visas-of-six-foreigners-saying-they-celebrated-charlie-kirks-killing\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:20:22","slug":"state-department-revokes-visas-of-six-foreigners-saying-they-celebrated-charlie-kirks-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/state-department-revokes-visas-of-six-foreigners-saying-they-celebrated-charlie-kirks-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department revokes visas of six foreigners, saying they celebrated Charlie Kirk\u2019s killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By We are Salam<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Foreigners who celebrate the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/a> will have their visas revoked, the State Department<\/a> says.<\/p>\n

“The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans,” the State Department wrote on X<\/a> on Tuesday, adding that it “continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk.”<\/p>\n

The State Department went on to post a thread of screenshots it said were from six visa holders who had shared opinions on Kirk, who was posthumously awarded<\/a> the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday, which would have been his 32nd birthday. He was fatally shot<\/a> at a Utah college on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n

In one of the examples, the agency wrote that a Mexican national had said that “there are people who deserve to die. There are people who would make the world better off dead.”<\/p>\n

The State Department’s announcement came the same day that Blue Light News reported on group chats<\/a> between leaders of Young Republicans groups, in which a dozen members shared racist messages and said things like “I love Hitler.”<\/p>\n

But unlike the foreigners’ remarks about Kirk, Vice President JD Vance dismissed the Young Republicans’ leaked chats<\/a> as juvenile humor. (BLN has not independently verified the messages.)<\/p>\n

“They tell edgy, offensive jokes — like, that’s what kids do,” Vance said on an episode of the “The Charlie Kirk Show.” “And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke — telling a very offensive, stupid joke — is cause to ruin their lives.”<\/p>\n

The State Department and the White House did not immediately respond to BLN’s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We are Salam<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Erum Salam is a breaking news reporter and producer for BLN Digital. She previously was a breaking news reporter for The Guardian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n