Trump’s Visa Crackdown Has an Exception: His Friends
The State Department plans to give Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate and Donald Trump ally, and his family US visas to enter the country. At the same time, Trump’s government continues to implement widespread restrictions on new visas while it suspends and revokes existing ones. As my colleague Isabela Dias noted Tuesday, […]
Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate and ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, and his family have been granted U.S. visas for entry into the country. Simultaneously, the Trump administration is cracking down on visa issuance by suspending and revoking existing ones. Despite Bolsonaro being under investigations for alleged involvement in money laundering and tax evasion, he defied a Brazilian Supreme Court order barring him from leaving the country.
Bolsonaro and his family entered the U.S. from Brazil and landed in Miami on Wednesday morning. His brother, Eduardo, a key figure in Brazil's far-right circles and a Trump associate, has been residing in the U.S. since early 2025. The U.S. has imposed 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian goods and sanctions on judicial authorities in retaliation for the alleged political persecution of Bolsonaro under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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