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> Also love he thinks his social media posts will cause him to be sent to a gulag at the border crossing. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas
by simonw 6mo ago
> Also love he thinks his social media posts will cause him to be sent to a gulag at the border crossing.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-visa-applicants.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/a...
> Effective March 30, the Department of State will expand online presence review to include applicants in the following additional nonimmigrant visa classifications [...] To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for A-3, C-3 (if a domestic worker), G-5, H-3, H-4 dependents of H-3, K-1, K-2, K-3, Q, R-1, R-2, S, T, U, H-1B, H-4, F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas are instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to “public” or “open.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...
> A French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration, said a French minister. [...]
> The same source said that messages discussing the Trump administration’s treatment of scientists had been found. The researcher was reportedly then accused of writings “that reflect hatred toward Trump and can be described as terrorism”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/15/australian-deported-from-us-says-he-was-targeted-due-to-writing-on-pro-palestine-student-protests https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/15/austr...
> An Australian man who was detained upon arrival at Los Angeles airport and deported back to Melbourne says United States border officials told him it was due to his writing on pro-Palestine protests by university students.
- throwawaypath 6mo ago[flagged]
- etchalon 6mo agoThe only evidence we have it was fake news is a statement from the Department of Homeland Security itself - a department which has been repeatedly caught lying in courts of law under this administration. But I'm sure the statement they gave to a journalist, which hasn't been confirmed by any third-party reporting, was absolutely factual.
- throwawaypath 6mo ago[flagged]
- etchalon 6mo agoI think you think that was clever.
- throwawaypath 6mo agoYou thinking that I think that was clever is telling.
- simonw 6mo agoIf he was in possession of confidential information why didn't they charge him?
- throwawaypath 6mo ago[flagged]