TRUMP Wants to Force Immigrants to Share Their Social Media Handles

Soon, If a New Proposal from the Trump Administration Goes Into Effect, Immigrants Applying For Green Cards OR Citizenship Will Have to Disclosi Their Social Media Handles With Their Application, The Interced Report Sunday.

Consider the recent detention of Mahmoud Khalil, An Immigrant and Columbia University Student Who Helped Lead Pro-Palestinian Protests on Campus in 2024, this proposed New Policy Couathy affectory immigrants to the US Who has exposed pro-Palestinian or anti-israel view, including People WHO HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE Lived in the Country for Many Years. ALthough Trump has alleged Khalil was a “Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas” operational, he has offered no evidence to back up his claim, and experiences told Rolling Stone Khalil's Arrest is a Clear Violation of First Amendment Rights.

The Administration's Proposal Refers to An Executive Order Trump Signed On His First Day in Office That Sets The Stage For A Second Travel Ban On Citizens from Majority Muslim Countries. The Order Also Directed Federal Agencies to Find Immigrants in the US Who Hold “Hostile ATTAUTIDES” TOWARD America.

During Trump's First Term in Office, he institted a so-he-healed “Muslim Ban” that was upheld by the supreme court. President Joe Biden Repeled the Ban in 2021, But Trump Campaigned on bringing it back and making it “Much Stronger.” A Draft List for the New Ban Obtained by The New York Times Last Week Includes a Total Block On Citizens From 11 Countries as Well As Restrictions on Citizens from 10 Other Nations, Plus It Gives 22 Additional Countries 60 Days to address the Administrations' Concens.

Forcing Immigrants To Share Their Social Media Handles “Would Disparately Impact Muslim and Arab Application Seeking Us Citizenship That Have Voice Support For Palestinian Human Rights,” Robert McCaw, Director of Government Affairs at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Told the Intercept. “Collecting the Social Media Identifiers of Any Potential Green Card Applicants or Citizens is the means to silence their lawful speech.”

In The Proposal, Us Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) State Trump's Executive Order “Requires the collection of all information necessary for Rigorous Vecting and screening of All Grounds of Insubsità or Bases for the Denial of Immigration-Related Benefits.” It Goes On Say That Gathering Social Media Accounts is required “For the enhanced identity verification, arc and national security screening.” Uscis Proposes use the Information to “Help validated an Applicant's Identity” and to Determines IF they place “A Security or Public-Safety Threat.”

But the first Amendment Provides Protections to More Than Just Us Citizens.

“Anybody Who is with the Bounds of the United States Has First Amendment Rights,” Saira Hussain, at Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Told the Intercept. “The Constitution Applies When you are Somebody Who is a Citizen or Somebody Who is a Green Card Holder Who is here in the United States. I Think That That Administration is Trying to Chip Away at That Notion, but that is very much What First Amendment Jurisprundence Has Been Under The Courts. “

The Proposal is Currently Open for Public Comment Through May 5, 2025.