For Some Reason, Immigration Officials Have To Defend Blocking People With Anti-American Views

If you do not like America, hate America, want to hurt America, denigrate America, well, why are you coming to America?

Top US immigration official defends rule targeting ‘anti-American’ views in green card, visa process

A new rule allowing a U.S. immigration agency to scrutinize a person’s “anti-American” views when applying for a green card or other benefits isn’t designed to target political beliefs, but to identify support for terrorist activity, the organization’s director told The Associated Press.

In a wide-ranging interview on Monday, the director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph Edlow, delved into the agency’s contentious policy — announced last month — which allows officers to decide whether a foreigner applying for a certain benefit has endorsed what they believe are anti-American views.

Edlow also detailed problems he sees with a training program that’s popular with international students, but hated by some Trump supporters. He described how and why he’s thinking of changing the process by which hundreds of thousands of people become American citizens every year. (snip)

The new policy by USCIS stipulates that its officers could now consider whether an applicant “endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise espoused” anti-American, terrorist or antisemitic views when making their decision about whether to grant the benefit.

Critics questioned whether it gives officers too much leeway in rejecting foreigners based on a subjective judgment.

Heck no, they should have more judgement on this. Free Speech is wonderful for American citizens. If you hate it in the US then don’t come. We can give a visa to people who want to be here. If you hate Jews and/or support terrorism/terrorist groups, you have no place here.

BTW, I dropped two posts over at The First Street Journal. Check them out there, I’m not going to bother importing them, gotta get on the road. I’m going to write an If All You See Post, will most likely have to manually post it around 1pm depending on traffic. Hilariously, even with the admin page down (there were a few leftover fragments of a deleted plugin hidden, thanks Dreamhost for removing them).