U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers introduced Wednesday that it is going to be scrubbing via immigrants’ social media accounts in the hunt for “antisemitic activity” as grounds for denying immigration profit requests.
“This will immediately affect aliens applying for lawful permanent resident status, foreign students and aliens affiliated with educational institutions linked to antisemitic activity,” the assertion mentioned.
The announcement comes lower than a month after the Division of Homeland Safety used an identical excuse to shred the constitutional rights of authorized immigrants, who have been arrested and threatened with deportation for collaborating in Professional-Palestinian protests.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has terrified individuals throughout the nation, disappearing scholar activists like Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD candidate at Tufts College who was arrested in entrance of her condo in Somerville, Massachusetts, by ICE officers.
College students protest at Columbia College following ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil for his involvement in pro-Palestinian actions.
And President Donald Trump has been attacking greater schooling establishments like Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton as a part of the continuing “Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism” investigations. Trump has threatened to withhold billions in federal grants until they comply in proscribing First Modification rights on campus.
After all, if the Trump administration had any actual curiosity in combatting antisemitism, it could begin with Trump and co-president Elon Musk.
Musk purchased Twitter, rebranded it as X, after which promoted wildly antisemitic content material and numerous conspiracy theories, a lot of which contain a Jewish cabal pulling the worldwide strings of energy.
And Trump reportedly stored a replica of Adolf Hitler’s speeches by his bedside, preemptively blamed liberal Jews for any future election losses, and referred to as Jewish Sen. Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, ”a Palestinian so far as I’m involved.”
That is the most recent cynical transfer by the Trump administration to cover behind its phony concern about antisemitism to hold out what journalist Yair Rosenberg not too long ago described in The Atlantic as “a radical agenda that has nothing to do with Jews at all—and that most American Jews do not support.”
Not one of the Trump administration’s latest actions have something to do with defending Jews—who overwhelmingly voted in opposition to Trump—or combatting antisemitism.
As an alternative, they’re simply the most recent ugly justification for Expensive Chief’s trampling of the Structure whereas advancing his xenophobic campaign in opposition to immigrants.
