The United States immigration authorities said Wednesday that they would analyze social networks accounts and deny residence permits or permits to people who publish content considered anti -Semitic by the administration of President Donald Trump.
Publications defined as anti -Semites will include the activity of social networks in support of groups classified by the United States as terrorists, including Hamas, Hezbollah of Lebanon and Yemen’s hutis.
The measure occurs after the Trump administration has canceled controversial visas for students within the United States, where the first amendment of the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression.
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, “has made it clear that anyone who thinks that can come to the United States and hide behind the first amendment to advocate anti -Semitic violence and terrorism, think again. It is not welcome here,” said the spokeswoman for the department, Tricia McLaughlin, in a statement.
Citizenship and immigration services of the United States “will consider the content of social networks that indicate a foreign support, adopt, promote or support anti -Semitic terrorism, anti -Semitic terrorist organizations or other anti -Semitic activity as a negative factor” to determine the benefits, the statement said.
Politics would immediately enter into force and apply to students’ visas and requests for “green cards” of permanent residents to remain in the United States.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said at the end of last month that he has stripped visas for about 300 people and did it daily.
Rubio said that non -American citizens do not have the same rights as Americans and that it went to their discretion, not that of judges, issue or deny visas.
Several people stripped of visas argue that they never expressed antipathy by the Jews, and some say they were attacked because they found themselves in the same place as the protests.
The most high profile deportation case is Mahmoud Khalil, who directed protests at Columbia University in New York. He was also taken to Louisiana before deportation procedures, despite being a permanent resident of the United States.
The Trump administration has also stripped millions of dollars in federal funds for the main universities, and officials say they did not respond adequately to combat anti -Semitism during the protests that exploded over the Gaza conflict.
