Green card holders living in the US may soon need to surrender their social media account to the government under a new proposal as part of their action on immigration by President Donald Trump administration. Visa applicants living abroad require already share their social media handles with American citizenship and immigration services (USCIS). Now, under the new proposal, the policy will expand to legally living in the US and is applying for a permanent residence or seeking asylum.
This step may potentially allow the White House to make the United States its home and allow critics to bar. It will affect many Indians living legally in the US and is an active contribution in Indian and American politics. Increased investigation from the government can discourage these people from speaking on online political matters due to the risk of negative results.
The reason behind this step
In a notice issued on March 5, the Trump administration announced that it was demanding public remarks on its plan, saying that USCIS has identified the need to gather “social media identifiers (‘handle’) and collect social media platform names related to applicants to inform the identity verification, national security and public safety screening, and public security screening, and related inspections.
The document stated that social media accounts were required for “increased identity verification, veating and national security screening”.
How will the green card holder be affected
The scheme is an expansion of a current policy that makes visa applicants mandatory abroad to provide its social media handle. This proposal is to expand the investigation of the residents already present who exist legitimately in the country, including green cards and asylum seekers who are applying for permanent residence.
Increased social media veating among the aggressive immigration enforcement of the Trump administration includes a close investigation of green cards and visa holders.
Trump’s immigration crack
Since coming to power for the second time, the hardcore approach to existing Trump’s immigrants has already intensified the partisan partition of the US.
On January 20, his first day in the office, Trump signed an executive order, directed to federal agencies to direct federal agencies to make a team to fight the “attack” of illegal immigrants. He put the country’s estimated 11 million migrants in the US as a driving factor behind illegal crime, gang violence and drug trafficking – not supported by government data, and accused of measuring American government resources and depriving of jobs.
Almost immediate, federal law enforcement began posting pictures of Crackdown on social media: Agents wore body armor and jackets with the names of several agencies – including FBI, drug enforcement administration, and bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, known during the ATF without proper legal status.
