The Homeland Security Task Force Department is specially designed to find the social media history of about 1.5 million immigrant students in the United States, so that they can find the base to cancel their visa. NBC News,
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced that while moving forward, it would consider any form of antisemtic activity and “physical oppression of Jewish individuals” on social media, which would be as the basis for cancellation or rejecting immigration benefits.
He said that Homeland’s 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 the anti -Jewish violence and terrorism – think again, “He said.” You are not welcome here. “
According to American citizenship and immigration services, the policy will consider social media content that indicates an immigrant “Antisemitic terrorism, antisementic terrorist organizations, or other antisemitic activity” to support, spy, promote, or support as a negative factor in their application. This means that Honalists, Palestinians, means Palestinians He has expressed support for groups such as Hizbullah, or Ansar Allah (also known as Hauthis), can be denied immigration benefits.
On the American-Islamic relations over the Muslim Civil Rights and Advocacy Organization, the council said that the new policy was reminiscent of “Macorthism”, a strategy that violated privacy rights and was used to identify alleged communists in the Cold War.
“The spirit of Joseph Macarthi is alive and well in the Trump administration, which dishonestly criticized the misconduct in Gaza as an antisemitic for legitimate criticism of the War crimes of the Israeli government in Gaza, and threatened witches in American colleges, and threatened free speech rights of operations in American colleges.
Interestingly, the data analytics tools being used to investigate social media were extended during the biden administration. However, the use was completely different. A former biden administration DHS official said, “We were not targeting political activity or speech. We would only review them when they were instigating violence”, very different from using equipment to find social media of non -violent students.
The National Limiting Center and National Waiting Center of Customs and Border Security are handling equipment that DHS is using to ensure that security threats do not enter the United States. Potential red flags are alerted for citizenship and immigration services, which then asks the state department if the student’s visa should be canceled.
Once it is decided that their visa needs to be canceled, the task force informed the immigration and customs enforcement agents in local area offices to arrest and deport the student.
As Media reportAround 300 immigrant students were removed from their visas.
Earlier, the investigative work must have been done at the field office level, and then shared with ICE officials. But now, agents are taking orders from those who do not know in the task force in Washington and are not even given clear guidance about why a particular person is being targeted.
Ice Chief of Staff John Fair has criticized the student and exchange visitor program and has written articles for Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that advocates low immigration in the United States.
“The broad fraud has become a central part of the US foreign student program, and government agencies are responsible for ending it, which has been sleeping on the wheel for a very long time,” Ferre has written in an article.