I suppose one happy fact from this must be that USCIS has never had convenient access to dragnet surveillance. For if they did, they would simply have used the backdoor rather than ask you to make the profile public. For my part, I always assumed that the US Government knew everything I posted.
I'm sure that if they didn't like me for some reason, they'd find a Richelieu accusation to make from what I've written. One would imagine it is like that other self-evident thing in the First Amendment, "separation of church and state", that is also practiced where convenient and not otherwise. Unless born American (and perhaps now, also "to Americans born American") some degree of scepticism for the tenets of the American Civil Religion will serve anyone well.
0: https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Enhanced%20Vettin...
1: I'm sure someone could construct machinery where a blacklist is produced by one arm of the government with view to posts which is used by another arm that which has no post-access but I think that was unlikely when this was designed
Not necessarily.
One of the very common tactics by federal investigators is asking a question they already know the answer to. That lets them know when you're lying, which can be a crime on its own!
I always enjoyed that question in that there was a two line explanation field :)
I assume that was similar in that it's there to catch a lie (possibly just after the fact / legal leverage) ... not really find anything out with that question at that moment.
I suppose the analogous technique here is whether you delete content they've already recorded. Though it could be simpler, and they're just trying to cause an unforced error where someone fails to make a profile public, creating an avenue to reject them even if it were perfectly fine otherwise.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders...
They thought of that. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Enhanced%20Vettin...
> In the case of an applicant who has used any of the social media platforms listed on the visa application in the preceding five years, the associated social media identifier would be required on the visa application form.
/s
We are currently test driving the arbitrary execution of anyone without due process to see if THAT finally wakes up the population. But it wont.
It was sad to realize that they viewed the U.S. as so dangerous. But I can say for certain that I feel I could walk around Tokyo at night and not have a worry in the world. From time to time I am embarrassed by the U.S.
I'm curious as to how you'd define a 'heritage' American.
Or actually now that I think about it, my mom, who as a child knew her great-grandma, a Norwegian immigrant, wouldn't count as a "heritage American".
No, because of the ties to a foreign country through your stepmother.
> Or actually now that I think about it, my mom, who as a child knew her great-grandma, a Norwegian immigrant, wouldn't count as a "heritage American".
No, although if it's only one great-grandmother among 8 I'm not super worried about your mom being more loyal to Norway than the US. Also realistically Norway today has many of the same issues with culturally-foreign immigrants that the US does, so maybe that wouldn't amount to all that much in the unlikely case that your mom did strongly identify with Norwegian cultural norms.
The current President is married to a foreign citizen. Does that count?
It's not cruel to want to keep your country from changing irreversibly. Foreigners don't have a right to immigrate. Americans are allowed to decide who they want to let in.
With how things are going, I’m starting to wonder whether I should make some accounts just to pass the normalcy test.
I’m in college and I don’t have a single friend who doesn’t actively use Instagram.
Sure. But said country may have set rules for itself, like the First Amendment, that limit what's permissible beyond what international law and sovereignty alone permit.
(To extend the house analogy, you may not actually be able to "enforce any limits I wish unto who may enter my house". It is, for example, generally unlawful for you to evict your minor child. If you rent out a room, that tenant has rights you can't violate, too. You can't keep out a cop with a valid warrant, either.)
Probably better to think of these as rules that the ruled people have for their rulers.
The other issue is that the vetting will likely not just look for terroristic or other 'illegal' social media content - it will look for whatever the administration decides to look for - again without oversight.
- I suspect there is racism and xenophobia behind this
- What kind of weak-ass people cannot tolerate dissenting opinions from visitors?
You are free to suspect anything you want - that doesn't make it true.
Americans are tired of their country being abused.
Not all the people and the policies being put in place were not what was promised.
> Americans are tired of their country being abused.
Which Americans do you mean specifically? And which abuse? That's not specific enough.
Meaningless. You are implying that unless someone is elected with 100% of votes, they do not represent the People?
> policies being put in place were not what was promised.
Again meaningless. Did Trump make promises specifically to not increase stringency of immigration law? He was elected to make decisions on behalf of the electorate.
> Which Americans do you mean specifically? And which abuse? That's not specific enough.
The Americans who elected the current President. Abuse by by companies and individuals defrauding American workers and taxpayers, while the government does nothing to combat it. The abuse by the government allowing millions of immigrants per year to the detriment of Americans (speaking of "not what was promised", the 1965 INA).
I will take even this pittance at this point.
Yet another example of the US being controlled by Zionist interests. They’ve already expanded the definition of “antisemitism” to include saying Israel has no right to exist.
This is ostensively positioned at keeping out foreign influence but the irony is it is 100% foreign influence.
They've gone quite a bit further than that.
"Israel shouldn't indiscriminately bomb civilian children", for example.