{"id":357654,"date":"2025-08-19T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357654\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:40:10","slug":"us-to-root-out-anti-americanism-in-reviewing-immigration-applications-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357654\/","title":{"rendered":"US to \u2018root out anti-Americanism\u2019 in reviewing immigration applications | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration<\/a> said on Tuesday that it will look for \u201canti-American\u201d views, including on social media, when assessing the applications of people wanting to live in the United States.<\/p>\n

In an announcement<\/a>, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, which handles requests to stay in the United States or become a citizen, said it would expand vetting of the social media postings of applicants and that \u201creviews for anti-American activity will be added to that vetting\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s benefits should not be given to those who despise the country and promote anti-American ideologies,\u201d said agency spokesperson Matthew Tragesser. \u201cUS Citizenship and Immigration Services is committed to implementing policies and procedures that root out anti-Americanism and supporting the enforcement of rigorous screening and vetting measures to the fullest extent possible. Immigration benefits \u2013 including to live and work in the United States \u2013 remain a privilege, not a right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US Immigration and Nationality Act, which dates back to 1952, defines anti-Americanism, which at the time primarily focused on communists.<\/p>\n

Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has moved aggressively to deny or rescind short-term visas for people deemed to go against US foreign policy interests, especially on Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The latest guidance on immigration decisions said that authorities will also look at whether applicants \u201cpromote anti-Semitic ideologies\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration<\/a> has accused students and universities of antisemitism over protests against Israel\u2019s war in the Gaza Strip, charges denied by the activists.<\/p>\n

In April, the administration revoked<\/a> or changed the legal status of hundreds of international students, only to reinstate<\/a> them several weeks later. In May, student visa interviews were temporarily halted<\/a>, and then, in June, new social media<\/a> vetting measures were introduced for international students applying to study in the US.<\/p>\n

Under the new measures, US diplomats are directed<\/a> to review applicants\u2019 social media profiles to look for \u201cany indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of the United States\u201d before issuing visas.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the State Department said it had revoked 6,000 student visas since the secretary of state, Marco Rubio<\/a>, took office in January. It said that 4,000 of the cases involved violations of the law \u2013 \u201cthe vast majority being assault, DUI, burglary and support for terrorism\u201d a state department official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it will look for \u201canti-American\u201d views, including on social media, when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-357654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}