(Hill) A Jewish civil rights group is asking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) how it plans to evaluate migrants’ social media accounts after the agency said it would use antisemitic content as grounds for denying immigration benefits.
The department said Wednesday it would “begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media” as it weighs whether to approve applications for green cards or student visas.
But the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), an 80-year-old nonpartisan Jewish advocacy group, asked the DHS how it plans to make that evaluation.
“Make no mistake: the threat of antisemitism is real and rising in the United States and around the globe,” the group’s CEO Amy Spitalnick wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
