Organized crime groups have demanded shares of proceeds from illegal gambling operations and have used violence, including assault, extortion, and robbery, to collect debts and protect those operations.
November 24, 2025
high
pattern
Describes a recurring enforcement and revenue-extraction pattern associated with criminal enterprises involved in illegal gambling.
In 2025, the top crime-related reasons cited by the U.S. State Department for revoking nonimmigrant visas were driving under the influence (more than 16,000 revocations), assault (more than 12,000 revocations), and theft (more than 8,000 revocations); those three categories together accounted for nearly half of revoked visas.
January 01, 2025
high
statistical
Counts by cited criminal-offense categories among nonimmigrant visa revocations reported for 2025.