Donald Trump has expanded his crackdown on immigration to every single person who holds a valid US Visa.
The United States Department of State announced that of the 55 million foreigners who hold valid US Visas, regardless of where they currently may be at this moment in time, they face either deportation or revocation of their visas. Secretary Marco Rubio stated that his department will be looking into whether the immigrants who have the visas have broken any immigration rules.
The department listed various actions which they consider breaking immigration rules: visa overstays, criminal activities, terrorist activities, providing support for terrorist organizations, and threats to public safety. The “support for terrorist organization” is an amorphous standard to set because being pro-Palestine could technically be considered supporting a terrorist organization. In reality, the Trump administration has already targeted specific pro-Palestine scholars for deportation.
Rubio added that another specific profession the Trump administration would look into as far as immigration will go is truck driving. Rubio took to Twitter to explain that he will be pausing all worker visas for commercial truck drivers effective immediately. Rubio owed his decision to foreign-born commercial truck drivers allegedly endangering American lives and “undercutting” American truckers’ livelihoods.
Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) August 21, 2025
The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.
Per AP, 12.8 million of the immigrants are green card holders and 3.6 million people are on temporary visit visas. The Migrant Policy Institute also added that some of the 55 million under review are outside the US with multiple entry visas, raising questions about whether the resources being spent on investigating people who may never come back to the US are going to bear any useful results.
Trump came into office with the promise that he would be targeting immigrants who have committed crimes. And he has deported 400,000 people since he came into office. But the Trump administration has received considerable criticism for going beyond the immigrants with criminal pasts, even from people who supported him during his campaign, such as Joe Rogan. So the question percolating on everyone’s mind is how long before this latest directive swells past the immigrants who have a criminal past — or wrote an opinion article in support of pro-Palestine protests on university campuses.
But there are also economic realities for business owners, even as the Trump administration tries to ensure his mass immigration crackdown goes smoothly. The farmlands are being adversely affected, and Trump has taken considerable backtracking positions partly inspired by how he believes some immigrants who work on farms “can’t have bad backs” because “they’re very special people.”
The inconsistencies in Trump’s immigration policy are all held together by the fact that this is the one policy he can deliver to his MAGA base that won’t affect anything else that might affect him. The Jeffrey Epstein files might expose someone in his inner circle, and the megabill, although extremely unfavorable, was vital for reducing the tax rate of people at his income level. Even tariffs have not been going as well as the administration promised.
But with immigration, they can blame everything, including rising housing costs, on it. And with every rushed deportation, they can claim that they’re making America great again little by little.
