In the midst of stricter immigration rules, President Donald Trump’s administration announced that US work and visa study applicants will now be tested for “anti -Americanism” and any such findings against them.
On Tuesday, political warning of US citizenship and immigration services issued that they provided new guidelines to immigration officials on how to perform discretion in cases where foreign applicants “support or support anti -American ideologies or activities” as well as “anti -Semitic terrorism”.
“Anti -American activity will be a tremendously negative factor in any discrete analysis,” USCIS said.
“The American advantages should not be provided to those who despise the country and promote anti -American ideologies.”
What is considered “anti -American”?
The announcement did not define anti -Americanism. However, the political handbook refers to a part of the federal law to forbid the naturalization of people “against government or law or who prefer totalitarian forms of government”.
The document also states factors such as support for communism or totalitarian regime, defending the overthrow of the US government or inciting violence against government officials.
USCIS added that it has expanded social media controls across multiple types of applications, and the projection for “anti -American activity” has now been included in this process.
Trump described various groups as “anti-American”, including historians and museums that document the history of US slavery and pro-Palestinian demonstrators criticizing the Israeli military offensive in Gaza.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, the executive of the US immigration board, said, as Reuters said, stepped in the 1950s, when Senator Joseph McCarthy hunted the alleged Communists in a campaign that became synonymous with political persecution.
“McCarthyism returns to immigration law,” he said. Anti -Americanism “does not have previous precedent in the Act on Immigration and his definition is entirely up to Trump.”
(With Reuters inputs)
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