Trump admin will start rejecting visas for foreign students over antisemitic social media posts

 The Trump administration will begin barring foreign students and others from the US if they engage in “antisemitic activity on social media,” US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday.

Immigration agents can take into account social media posts showing an immigrant’s support for “antisemitic terrorism” to reject their applications for a student visa or green card, according to USCIS.

And the policy is “effective immediately.”

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Protestors participate in a rally to show support for Tufts PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was snatched by ICE in Boston.REUTERS

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Mahmoud Khalil was the first student nabbed by ICE as part of its mass deportation effort to combat campus antisemitism.LP Media for NY Post

If an immigrant has social media posts showing their support for “antisemitic terrorism,” immigration agents can use that information as evidence to keep them from receiving legal immigration status in the US.

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said that “there is no room” for the US to take in “the rest of the world’s terrorist sympathizers,” adding that “we are under no obligation to admit them or let them stay here.”

“[DHS Secretary Kristi] Noem has made it clear that anyone who thinks they can come to America and hide behind the First Amendment to advocate for antisemitic violence and terrorism – think again. You are not welcome here,” she said.

The Trump administration has already targeted foreign students participating in anti-Israel protests on college campuses for its mass deportation effort, sending out immigration agents to nab them.

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Protestors rally against the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort.REUTERS

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already stripped roughly 300 international students of their visas.

“We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa,” he said.

The first student arrested as part of the effort was Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old Palestinian former graduate student at Columbia University.

Khalil, who has a green card, was nabbed by ICE agents last month for his role in helping organize several anti-Israel protests at Columbia.

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Security camera footage shows the moment immigration agents nab Rumeysa Ozturk off the streets of Boston.AP
Khalil is currently detained in an ICE detention center in Louisiana, where he is fighting the Trump administration’s push to deport him.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Ph.D. student from Turkey, was also recently snatched off the street by ICE agents in Boston after the Trump administration “terminated” her student visa for her alleged “activities in support of Hamas,” DHS said.

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