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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Trump officials to monitor immigrants’ social media for antisemitism

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Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, speaks in Phoenix, Arizona, in April. Photograph: Rebecca Noble/AFP/Getty Images

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced that it will begin monitoring immigrants’ social media accounts for antisemitism, prompting some advocacy groups to push back and condemn the news as an “excuse to move a cruel, anti-immigrant, authoritarian agenda”.

In a statement on Wednesday, USCIS said that it will start “considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests”.

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