While much of the nation's attention from the Trump administration is distracted by the recent Supreme Court tariffs decision and the responses from the White House, the immigration issue is still very much in play. In the latest move, the State Department, under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is cracking down on illegal Uzbek visa brokers. And, yes, this is what we voted for.
President Trump and Secretary Rubio are making visa restrictions great again. pic.twitter.com/dxliERk7O3
— Department of State (@StateDept) February 21, 2026
An exclusive story at the Washington Reporter has more details.
The Trump administration’s State Department is imposing a series of visa restrictions on “executives at Uzbekistan-based companies who knowingly facilitated illegal immigration to the United States by coordinating transportation for illegal immigrants, including minors, through Central America,” the Washington Reporter can exclusively confirm.
“The Government of Uzbekistan’s close cooperation in shutting down these criminal networks is vital to our shared commitment to combating human smuggling and protecting our national security,” a State Department official told the Reporter.
The move, a foreign policy expert told the Reporter, is part of the Trump administration’s moves to “Make Visa Restrictions Great Again,” and it specifically targets senior executives at two Uzbekistan-based visa facilitation companies who the State Department found to have “knowingly provided travel services designed primarily for aliens intending to illegally immigrate to the United States.”
Including minors - and through Central America. Uzbekistan is almost certainly far from the only point of origin for schemes like this, human trafficking, and possibly worse; some of these nations are almost certainly seeking to infiltrate some very bad people into the United States.
This source, at least, has now been hampered.
These measures taken came following State Department investigations that found that Uzbekistani businesses and individuals “actively coordinated transportation for aliens, including minors, intending to illegally immigrate to the United States through airports and across borders to transit points in Central America, where many were later encountered attempting to enter the United States illegally.”
There's an element of Whack-a-Mole in all this, but at least now one mole has been battered back down.
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Politics is the art of the possible, and in matters like this, the State Department has quite a bit of latitude. In Marco Rubio, we have the best Secretary of State that the United States has had in decades; he is certainly far better at the job than a certain former first lady (hah) and carpetbagger senator from New York I could name. And Uzbekistan, we might note, is not only an overwhelmingly Muslim country (although admittedly not one that you see popping up a lot in terror plots, compared to places like Iran) but is also a former Soviet "republic." The place has a troubled history, but that's no reason to allow Uzbek human trafficking operations to continue to operate.
Now, at least, this door has been slammed shut. Now the State Department can look for more similar operations, and shut them down as well. And, no, we're still not tired of winning.
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