The United States has altered its restrictions toward potential immigrants, allowing their green card applications to be denied for expressing anti-Israel political opinions, The New York Times reported on Saturday, after reviewing new training materials given to Department of Homeland Security immigration officers.
Further, the Times noted that these officers are now being referred to as “homeland defenders” in job postings, with one calling candidates to “Protect your homeland and defend your culture.”
The training materials describe candidates “endorsing, promoting or supporting anti-American views” or “antisemitic terrorism, ideologies or groups,” and tell officers to view such factors as “overwhelmingly negative.”
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