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US officials checking Facebook profiles of immigrants: Report
- Updated: January 30, 2017
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New York: The US limit officials are checking a Facebook profiles of immigrants before permitting them into a country, a media news said.
The pierce came in a arise of US President Donald Trump’s executive sequence to temporarily bar US entrance to refugees and adults from 7 Muslim-majority nations.
The US officials are reportedly checking a Facebook pages of immigrants for their domestic views, The Independent reported on Sunday.
A Houston-based counsel Mana Yegani was quoted as observant that several immature label holders, who have a right to live and work in a US, were incarcerated by limit agents during American airports hours after Trump’s executive sequence came into force.
According to a American Immigration Lawyers Association (Alia), limit agents were checking a amicable media accounts of those incarcerated and were interrogating them about their domestic beliefs before permitting them into a US.
“I and my associate lawyers had worked by a night fielding calls from people with legitimate visa being incarcerated before entering a US or systematic behind on flights to a Muslim-majority countries on a list,” pronounced Yegani, who works with a Alia.
“The anathema has influenced travellers with passports from 7 Muslim infancy countries and also immature label holders who are postulated permission to live and work in a US,” a mouthpiece from Department of Homeland Security said.
The anathema on Saturday combined disharmony and snub around a world, while countless travellers found their entrance to a US domain blocked and protests were staged during several US airports.
“In one purported occurrence a Sudanese PhD tyro during Stanford University in California, who has lived in a US for 22 years, was hold for 5 hours in New York and in another a twin Iranian-Canadian citizen was not authorised to house a moody in Ottawa,” a news noted.
“These are people that are entrance in legally. They have jobs here and they have vehicles here. Just since Trump sealed something during 6 p.m. yesterday (on Friday), things are entrance to a crashing halt. It’s scary,” Yegani said.
The executive sequence bans immigration from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen underneath measures to “keep radical Islamic terrorists out”.
“I am substantiating new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of a US,” Trump pronounced on Friday during a signing during a Pentagon after a swearing-in of Defence Secretary James Mattis, CNN reported.