Washington:
US immigration officials said on Wednesday that they would look at social media accounts and deny a visa or residence permit to those who are considered anti -Jew by the administration of President Donald Trump.
A post defined as anti-Jewish-US would include social media activity in support of terrorist groups classified by the United States, including Hamas, Hizbullah of Lebanon, Hizbullah of Lebanon and Hathi rebels of Yemen as terrorists as terrorists.
The move comes after the controversial canceled visas for students inside the United States by the Trump administration, where the first amendment of the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech.
The department spokesman Trissia McLaglin said in a statement, “Anyone who thinks that anyone can come to the US and hide from behind the first amendment to hide anti-Jews violence and terrorism.
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The statement stated that American citizenship and immigration services “would consider” social media content, which indicates a foreign support, espionage, promoting or indicating anti-Jewish terrorist terrorist organizations or other anti-Jewish activities as a negative factor.
The policy will be effective immediately and will apply to Student is displayed And request for a permanent resident “green card” to live in the United States.
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State Secretary Marco Rubio said at the end of last month that he had taken a visa for some 300 people and was doing so on a daily basis.
Rubio said that non-American citizens do not have equal rights to Americans and it was at their discretion, not for judges, to issue or reject visas.
Many people who were stripped of the visa said that they never gave an antipathy voice for the Jews, some said they were targeted because they were found at the same place that were in protest.
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The most high-profile exile case is Mahmud Khalil, who led the protests at Columbia University in New York. Despite being an American permanent resident, he was taken to Louisiana before exile proceedings.
The Trump administration has also taken away millions of dollars of federal funding to major universities, said that they did not respond properly to counter the anti-Jewishism during the protests during the Gaza war.
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