By screening applicants for student visas and green cards for hatred, the Trump administration intends to expand its crackdown on expat admissions into the country.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Wednesday that it will start taking into account immigrants ‘ racist comments on social press when approving requests for legal permanent residency and visas for foreign students and people at education institutions.
We are not required to accept or let terrorist sympathizers stay in the United States, according to Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary for public affairs, in a statement. ” Secretary Noem has made it clear that anyone who believes they can come to America and hide behind the First Amendment to support antisemitism and terrorism should reconsider.” You won’t find a place for you here.
According to the DHS, the screening will begin right away and cover both online comments and actual instances of Jewish people being physically abused. ” Applauding, supporting, supporting, or espousing” antisemitic terrorism, antisemitic terrorist organizations, or any other antisemitic activity” can be a few examples of comments.
Antisemitic remarks will serve as grounds for disqualifying admission.
More than a month after it was revealed that the State Department reportedly used artificial intelligence to pursue visa holders who were already living in the United States and who wished to support Hamas and other terrorist organizations, the announcement was made.
The Trump administration is examining social media posts in accordance with a” catch and revoke” initiative that Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched to search for noncitizens who are believed to support Hamas.
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Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University and a member of the Trump administration who helped lead protests over Israel’s occupation of Gaza last year, was among the protesters who were deported as a result of the Trump administration’s decision to deport.
Free speech and Arab American organizations see the focus on Gaza as a slippery slope that could conflate pro-Palestinian sentiment with support for Hamas, according to the AI program. The State Department argued, however, that if the views of some activists were known, the United States would never have approved the visas.
