So long, stay gone: Trump administration tires of 'bogus asylum claims,' will start revoking visas — lots of them

So long, stay gone: Trump administration tires of ‘bogus asylum claims,’ will start revoking visas — lots of them


The days of foreigners using temporary tourist and business visas to stay in the U.S. indefinitely are over.

In addition to launching a Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force aimed at curtailing the number of anchor babies, the State Department is poised to take action against foreigners who are attempting to use their nonimmigrant visas as stepping stones to asylum in America.

‘This is really just good housekeeping.’

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According to a pair of U.S. officials and State Department documents obtained by the Associated Press, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s department is set to announce the revocation of B-1 and B-2 visas that were issued over the past decade to foreigners who have sought or are seeking asylum. More than 200,000 foreign nationals reportedly could see their visas revoked at

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