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The Trump administration wants to review all prospective citizens’ social media accounts | People applying for US citizenship or personal residency may soon have to disclose their social media handles to the government.
An immigrant rights group called the move ‘authoritarian.’
In its Federal Register notice, USCIS said the proposed social media surveillance policy is needed to comply with President Trump’s “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats” executive order, issued on his first day in office. Bush-Joseph said she will be watching out for whether the new social media policy, which is framed in a way that emphasizes national security and the need for additional “vetting” of immigrants, is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict legal migration. Requiring visa applicants to disclose their social media handles, the complaint claimed, “facilitates the government’s access to what is effectively a live database of their personal, creative, and political activities online.” A federal judge dismissed the case with prejudice in 2023.
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