The US State Department said on Tuesday that 85,000 visas have been revoked since January.
"President [Donald] Trump and Secretary [Marco] Rubio adhere to one simple mandate, and they won't stop any time soon," the department said in a post accompanied by a photo of Mr Trump emblazoned with the words "Make America Safe Again".
About 8,000 student visas were among those rescinded, CNN reported, quoting a State Department official.
Some of the reasons for the revoked visas include drink-driving, assaults and theft, Fox News reported, which together account for almost half of those rescinded in the past year.
The Trump administration is continuing its immigration crackdown, and last month announced that it had halted immigration applications from citizens of 19 “high-risk countries”, after the shooting of two National Guardsmen in Washington allegedly by an Afghan refugee.
Mr Trump has made battling illegal immigration – and limiting new immigration – a cornerstone of his second administration
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