Washington:
US immigration officials have announced that they will screen social media accounts and deny a visa or residence permit that post anti -individuals to those individuals.
US citizenship and immigration service (USCIS), which is an agency of the Homeland Security Department, stated that it would begin to consider “aliens’ antisementic activity” and “physical harassment” of Jewish individuals on social media.
The policy will be effective immediately and will be applicable Student is displayed And to live in America, permanent residents request for “Green Card”, it is said in a statement.
Posts defined as anti-Jewish will include social media activity in support of groups classified by the US, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah of Lebanon and Hauthis of Yemen.
“USCIS will consider social media content that indicates a negative factor in any USCIS discretionary analysis when a negative factor indicates a foreign support, espionage, promoting, or other antisemetic terrorist organizations, or other antisementic activity, when immigration benefits in any USCIS discretionary analysis indicate the requests,” the agency said.
DHS Assistant Secretary for public affairs, Trisia McLaglin, said “there was” no room in the US “for the rest of the world’s terrorist sympathizers.
“We have no obligation to accept them or stay here,” he said.
Homeland Security Secretary Christie Nom “has made it clear that anyone who thinks that they can come to America and hide behind the first amendment to advocate anti-Jewish violence and terrorism-think here. You are not welcoming here,” said “Ms. McCallin said.
Donald Trump’s hard trend
Since coming to power in January, President Donald Trump has deported some foreign students, canceled several visas and warned universities to cut federal financing on anti -Pale Pale Pale Palentine protests.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio At the end of last month, he said that he has canceled the visa for some 300 people and was doing so on a daily basis.
The top American diplomat said on 27 March, “It can exceed 300 at this point. We do it every day.
One of the most high-profile exile cases is Palestinian performance Mahmud KhalilWho led the protests at Columbia University in New York last year.
Khalil, a native of Syria and a citizen of Algeria, entered the US on a student visa in 2022 and later filed a permanent resident in 2024 to become a permanent resident.
,With agency input,