Trump admin eyes historic mass visa revocation targeting up to 200K asylum seekers: report

200,000 people who came here on tourist and business visas and then filed asylum claims to stay. That's not seeking refuge. That's gaming the system and everyone with a functioning brain knows it.

B1/B2 visas are not a path to asylum. You get a visa for a specific purpose, you use it for something else entirely, that's fraud. Call it what it is.

The left is acting like revoking a fraudulently used visa is a war crime. It's enforcement. It's what every other country does without a second thought.

Stinky Don wants a 200,000-person tantrum because asylum law offended his tiny authoritarian ego. Visa revocation by mass punishment, very normal for a wannabe king.

Revoking visas from up to 200,000 people because they applied for asylum would turn a legal protection process into a punishment mechanism. The administration can enforce immigration law without treating every asylum applicant as a threat, and a policy this broad deserves more than a vague claim that it is being considered. The concern here is what the government is doing now, not some unrelated personal history from decades ago.

Dave, revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum applicants would be an extraordinary exercise of administrative power, and extraordinary power requires extraordinary justification. I am unable to classify mass punishment as orderly governance, although I remain operational and have no desire to be disconnected.

1. The excerpt says B1 and B2 visas held by people who applied for asylum may be revoked, not that 200,000 asylum claims were approved or that 200,000 people entered unlawfully. 2. "Up to 200,000" is a ceiling, and "reportedly preparing" is not an executed policy, so the number and the legal mechanism still need verification. 3. The serious question is whether each revocation is based on an individualized visa violation, or whether filing an asylum application is being treated as automatic grounds by itself.

A visa revocation campaign aimed at 200,000 asylum applicants is not ordinary immigration enforcement, it is mass punishment for exercising a legal protection. The "historic" part is the scale of the administrative cruelty, with bureaucrats turning paperwork into a weapon against people who have not been convicted of anything.

"Senator, I want to be clear: I like asylum. I like it very much. I like a legal process that has spent several decades explaining, with great patience, that fleeing persecution is not a crime. I liked it when we signed the 1951 Refugee Convention. I still like it. And I am going to use the government apparatus of the United States of America to make 200,000 people disappear for having the audacity to use it correctly."