when you invite people over to your home do you let them rearrange your furniture in whatever way they deem necessary?
Looks like they’re running some AI agent to try and match foreign students to social media accounts. If the US State department doesn’t like the politics of the posts the visa is being revoked. The thing is everyone in the US is protected by the constitution, not just citizens. So this is overturning fundamental rights to free speech and due process.
There is no way for these students to contest this. Many people don’t put their full name on social media, often people have the same name. So not only will this violate students first and fifth amendment protections, it will likely be applied to students who simply share the same name or are confused with other students who expressed a political view the government doesn’t like.
If this program continues it means that no foreign student in the US is safe from arbitrary deportation. All it takes is someone making a bot pretending to be that student making posts the administration doesn’t like. Since there is no process by which the student can even demonstrate the account is fake!
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-2/ALDE_00001262/
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You can just do things… wait not that.
Everybody in the US is due legal rights based on the constitution, not the same rights as citizens but the courts have ruled many times that temporary visa holders in the US do have the right to legal due process and free speech.
The US political system prevents tyranny through a system of checks and balances between different branches of the government. The entire system was designed to prevent anybody executing king like powers in the executive. If i want rights for myself, especially the right to a day in court if i’m accused of violating the law, then i have to demand those rights be upheld for others.
