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US to Screen Social Media Activities of Visa Applicants, Immigrants
The Straits Times
|April 11, 2025
The US government said on April 9 it will begin screening the social media of immigrants and visa applicants for what it called anti-Semitic activity, leading to swift condemnations from rights advocates, including some Jewish ones, who raised free speech and surveillance concerns.
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President Donald Trump's administration has attempted to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests over US ally Israel's devastating military assault on Gaza after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas' deadly October 2023 attack.
"Today, US Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin considering aliens' anti-Semitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests," said the Homeland Security Department agency.
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