The US State Department confirmed the revocation of the visas of several people who publicly celebrated the death of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
While the order was passed on Tuesday night, the official notification was released on Wednesday on their official website. Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, was a staunch Israeli supporter and ultra-right-wing voice in the United States.
His strong stance on Israel-Palestine and leading anti-LBGTQ voices in the country made him an overnight celebrity, which ultimately led to his assassination last month at Utah University.
In a post on X on Tuesday, Kirk’s birthday, the State Department said that the US “has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on American citizens.” The department then posted screenshots of messages and quotes written by six people from Germany, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, and South Africa.
According to the State Department, an Argentinian national allegedly accused Kirk of spreading racist views and claimed he “deserved” to die, while a German national allegedly wrote, “When fascists die, democrats don’t complain.”
A person from Brazil was said to have written that Kirk “was the reason for the Nazi rally where they marched in homage to and had died too late.” This is not an isolated case; earlier, dozens of people working in the US lost their jobs or were suspended for justifying the killing of Kirk.
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