The Trump administration has revoked more than 300,000 visas since January 2025, the State Department said Tuesday, a count that stood at 250,000 only last month.

Tommy Pigott, the department's spokesman, presented the total as a record. "With over 300,000 revocations, the Trump administration has revoked more visas at a faster pace than any administration in history," he wrote on X on Tuesday morning. "Let the message be clear: we have zero tolerance for foreigners here on visas who break the law, commit fraud, or undermine our national security."

The figure first appeared in an exclusive New York Post report published that morning, which cited a State Department official as saying the visas were revoked over criminal activity, threats to public safety, or immigration violations such as fraud or misrepresentation. At least 4,000 were taken from foreign nationals who, in the official's words, "engage in or facilitated birth tourism."

The count has climbed through the year. In January the department said it had revoked more than 100,000 visas, a record at the time, and the number passed 175,000 in August.

The Post also reported a breakdown for 2025: a quarter of that year's revocations were for assaults or related crimes, 22 percent for driving under the influence, and 7 percent each for theft and for substance abuse or distribution.

Several details were missing from Tuesday's disclosure. The nationalities of the people who lost their visas were not immediately clear, and neither the Post's report nor Pigott's post offered totals from earlier administrations to measure his comparison against. Nor did the figures show how many of the affected visa holders were in the United States when their visas were revoked.

The revocations are part of a wider tightening. The administration has also adopted a stricter policy on granting visas, with tightened social media vetting and expanded screening. Rights advocates and human rights experts have condemned the social media screening, saying it threatens free speech and is akin to surveillance and the singling out of immigrants.

Pigott indicated the effort would go on. "We are taking, and will continue to take, action to keep our borders, and our nation, secure," he wrote.