> why the US thought that it'd be a good idea to vet social media accounts for visa applications. The catalyst was the campus takeovers by people wearing masks

> why the US thought that it'd be a good idea to vet social media accounts for visa applications. The catalyst was the campus takeovers by people wearing masks and causing disruption for months. That was a gift for the Republicans, delivered on a silver platter. They made that an issue every day in Congress from October 7 2023 until November 5 2024. It coincided with the resignation of several university presidents. Columbia University President Minouche Shafik Cornell Martha Pollack Liz Magill, University of Pennsylvania Claudine Gay Harvard Additionally, the US has a statutory requirement for biometric exit scans when a visitor leaves. It was completely ignored. There were entry scans, but no exit scan. The simple fact is they don't want anyone not like them coming to the US, and unauthorized entry has diminished significantly. It's also the reason for rejecting birthright citizenship, and deporting unauthorized persons to third country staging areas. The UK is in the same boat. The UK is currently spending ~£3 billion per year on accommodations, and costs are expected to triple. It's created profiteering companies and waves of human trafficking across Europe. France only recently agreed to stop them when they line up a row of 20 zodiacs to assault Dover. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-college-presidents-who-have-resigned-amid-campus-protests-1939822 https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-college-presidents-who-ha... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/uk-asylum-seeker-accommodation-costs-over-decade-triple-to-15bn-nao https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/uk-asylum-seek... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2720n2kkjo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2720n2kkjo