USA to monitor the social media of immigrants to anti -Semitism: NPR

Department of Homeland Security Sec. The agency of Kristi Noem says that the social media management examinations will affect immigrants who apply for constant residence status and foreigners associated with educational institutions.

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US citizenship and immigration services Has announced It will begin to examine social media from immigrants in order to prove an anti -Semitic activity as reasons for the refusal of immigration requirements. The screenings concern people who apply for constant residence status and foreigners who are connected to educational institutions. The guideline will come into force immediately.

In a statement made this morning, the Ministry of Homeland Security said that “home from extremists and terrorists, including those, anti -Semitic terrorism, would protect violent anti -Semitic ideologies and anti -Semitic terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hisbollah, or Hubis).

“There is no place in the United States for the rest of the terrorist sympathizers in the world, and we are not obliged to admit them or let them stay here,” said DHS deputy secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin.

The announcement takes place according to the well-known arrests and imprisonment of pro-Palestinian student activists such as Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, which the government claims to do with anti-Semitic activities. Your lawyers deny the allegations.

“It is a privilege to preserve and study a visa in the United States.