The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that. Effective immediately, it will review applicants’ social media accounts for anti-Semitic content as an argument to deny any immigration benefits.
So such a decision will affect those immigrants who intend to obtain a permanent resident card or a student visa.
“There is no place in the United States for terrorist sympathizers from the rest of the world. And we have no obligation to admit them or allow them to stay here.” Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said in a statement.
Futhermore echoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, the official pointed out that anyone who. “Believes that they can come to the United States and hide behind the First Amendment to promote anti-Semitic violence and terrorism, think again.
He is not welcome here.” The announcement came shortly after DHS and its component agencies made a series of arrests against those who protested Israel’s war and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza.
However local media published that even in recent weeks student visas were revoked at 50 universities in the United States. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stressed that he withdrew that type of visa from at least 300 people, whom he described as “lunatics.” “If they carry out activities contrary to our national interest.
To our foreign policy, we will revoke their visa,” Rubio said. It is estimated that around a dozen students and professors from U.S. universities were detained by federal agents in the midst of the immigration offensive of the Donald Trump administration.
Also among those arrested are Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Badar Khan Suri, citizen Rumeysa Ozturk, an Indian and Georgetown academic, and Turkish citizen, PhD student, Rumeysa Ozturk, from Tufts University.
In conclusion the University of Minnesota also reported the arrest of an international graduate student, whose lawyer described it as a “highly sensitive situation.” Rasha Alawieh, an adjunct professor with a valid U.S. visa at Brown Medical School, was deported to Lebanon under allegations by federal agents that she attended the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in February.
With information from Prensa Latina
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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