“Do you think as you should?” The US will check if immigrants have “good views”

American immigration services (CCS) have announced that when assessing the applications of people who want to live in the USA, they will verify these people in terms of “anti -American views”, expressed, for example, on social networks – reported on Wednesday the daily Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

Uscic, a government agency responsible, among others For considering applications for granting a green card (allowing long -term stay in the US) and granting citizenship, they announced that they will extend the verification of applicants' entries in social media with “controls in terms of anti -American activities”.

– Immigration benefits should not be granted to those who despise our country and promote anti -American ideologies – said agency spokesman Matthew Tragesser. He added that the SPER is obliged to implement actions that “eradicate anti -Americanism” and for the widest possible verification of data. Immigration benefits, also enabling living and working in the United States, are privilege, not the law – he emphasized.

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The authorities will also check whether the applicants promote anti -Semitism – said the British “Guardian”. The daily reminded that Donald Trump's administration accused students and universities in the USA of anti -Semitism in connection with last year's wave of anti -izrael protests on campus. In spring, the administration changed the legal status of hundreds of foreign students, in May temporarily suspended interviews on student visas, and in June introduced new verification measures in social networks for foreign students applying to study in the USA.

According to new means, American diplomats are required to view the accounts of people applying for a visa in social networks at an angle of “all signs of hostility towards citizens, culture, government, institutions or founding principles of the United States” before issuing a visa – he told the daily. (PAP)

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