(Politico) U.S. authorities will examine the social media of foreigners seeking to enter the country as the Trump administration seeks to bar people it believes have engaged in antisemitic activity, the Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday.
DHS will apply the scrutiny to foreign students, people applying for legal residency or any other kind of immigration benefit as part of a plan to “protect the homeland from extremists” and comply with executive orders issued by President Donald Trump, the agency said in a statement announcing the measure.
“There is no room in the United States for the rest of the world’s terrorist sympathizers, and we are under no obligation to admit them or let them stay here,” DHS Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in the statement.
