Secretary of State Marco Rubio has imposed a visa restriction policy on those involved in “far-left terrorist” organizations and affiliated groups.
The move stands in support of a national security memorandum as the federal government seeks to “disrupt networks fomenting political violence before they escalate to criminal action,” the State Department said. Such groups “often use sophisticated, organized networks to perpetrate violence as a political tool – seeking to implement an extreme political vision through intimidation and coordinated campaigns of terror.”
“This policy will safeguard the American homeland by restricting entry of foreign nationals who finance, recruit, incite, or otherwise enable terrorist, violent, and criminal Far-Left Terrorist networks – closing the visa pathways that Far-Left Terrorists and other aligned groups exploit to threaten American lives, undermine economic stability, and coordinate violent action on U.S. soil,” it added.
Rubio’s action comes as the State Department has also noted that most cases of “politically motivated terrorism” were carried out by far-left groups between 1970 and 1980, where 93% of attacks were conducted by such entities. During that same time, 58% of terrorism-related deaths were at the hands of far-left organizations.
“Far-left anti-government terrorism now accounts for more attacks and plots in the United States than any other ideological category,” the State Department explained this week. “Far-left actors were responsible for 63% of all recorded anti-government attacks or plots as well as three out of the four anti-government fatalities in the United States in 2025.”
Rubio declared during the opening of the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism that such activity has “always been driven by a hatred — above all else, a hatred for civilization itself.”
