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Trump Administration Approves Tougher Visa Vetting, Including Social Media Checks (reuters.com)
The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years. From a report: The new questions, part of an effort to tighten vetting of would-be visitors to the United States, was approved on May 23 by the Office of Management and Budget despite criticism from a range of education officials and academic groups during a public comment period. Critics argued that the new questions would be overly burdensome, lead to long delays in processing and discourage international students and scientists from coming to the United States. Under the new procedures, consular officials can request all prior passport numbers, five years' worth of social media handles, email addresses and phone numbers and 15 years of biographical information including addresses, employment and travel history.
This is related to civil travel, not with optional and voluntary career choices that have predicable requirements.
Nice fantasy you fucking idiot, but how will you gather evidence on the thousands of travelers through each of the international airports each day? That's the problem with fake security practices, they get the rabid base to thrash but do nothing about any actual issues.
Rudeness is a weak man's attempt at strength.
Nearly all air travel tickets are bought in advance. That allows time to vet those who should be vetted. The Israelis have been doing this
successfully for some time ; I'm sure they'd be amused by you telling them it's all fake and cannot be done.