Posted on 03/27/2017 10:21:50 AM PDT by Lorianne
Human rights activists are expressing concern that a new State Department directive requiring consular officials to look through social media accounts of some visa applicants will effectively expand President Trump’s Muslim ban — and be used to exclude people with certain political viewpoints.
On Thursday, Reuters reported that even as some key parts of Trump’s Muslim ban executive order are being held up by legal challenges, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has ordered “mandatory social media checks” on visa applicants who have ever spent time in territory controlled by ISIS. He also directed embassies and diplomatic missions to identify other “populations warranting increased scrutiny,” whose visas would receive increased scrutiny.
Amnesty International sent a letter to the State Department, requesting that the memoranda and instructions related to the new measures be made public. “These implementation memos should be disclosed because they are a matter of public concern,” the letter reads. “Thousands of people apply for visas to travel to the United States — for urgently needed medical care, to escape persecution, to reunite with their families.”
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And also, people who are not citizens of the USA are .. well, how to put this? .... NOT CITIZENS.
So they don't get the same privacy rights that citizens do (if we have any).
Do it.
I guess sharing beheading videos with your facebook and twitter peeps might muck things up a bit, eh?
Should have titled that ‘Muslim activists worry”
TOUGH JIT
“...Could Quietly Expand Trump’s Muslim Ban”
IT’S NOT A MUSLIM BAN!!!!!!!
We would have found out that the San Bernadino shooter was a Jihadi. We wouldn’t have let the Tsarneav brothers in to bomb Boston.
BOTH had jihadi crap on their facebook pages.
Because all people enjoy the “human right” to ram their autos into random strangers while chanting religious slogans.
IOW, tell the world how to sanitize their social media accounts. Amnesty can pound sand.
Face it: “activists”, the media, the courts and Demonrats have a veto power on anything Trump does, especially doing anything to limit the flow of illegal alien criminals into this country.
“Activist,” which I am certain has a noble ring to it in the author’s ears, now means the same as “anti-American,” “traitor,” and “useful idiot.”
That would be racist! Imagine banning innocent people from coming to our country just because they cheer when terrorists murder the innocent. That is un-American, isn’t it?
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