The United States can ban you from entering the country because of what your friends say on social media

US immigration and tourism authorities are closely monitoring social media. You can deny entry to someone because of what other people say on Twitter or Facebook.

The United States has a peculiar obsession with the subject of immigration and potential tourists who are really looking for nothing more than to take some photos at the Statue of Liberty eating a hamburger bigger than your head. With the proliferation of social networks, attempts have been made to get as much as possible from these pages to obtain information on potential suspects, although many times they cancel entries to the country indiscriminately.

Now it turns out that not only can they deny you entry because of what you say, it may have some logic if you threaten politicians or want to change the established order in a non-legal way. If you want to enter the United States now you must monitor what they say about you on social networks, because now it is also a reason to deny you entry.

You don't come in if they talk bad about you on Twitter or Facebook.

This is surreal, but it is what happened to Ismail B. Ajjawi, a new Harvard student who was apparently denied entry for this reason. Upon arrival, they asked Ajjawi for his laptop and looked at comments on social networks from his friends, some who had views against the current administration of the United States.

We are talking about a student who must enter Harvard, one of the most prestigious universities in the world and in which they ask to pass one of the most difficult admission tests in the West. It is unthinkable to think that someone would risk their future so soon if they have made an effort to pass this entrance test and because some of their friends have contrary political ideas, as long as they do not touch illegality.

It is worrying because people from all over the world go to work and study in the United States, many from countries where the general trend is criticism of the United States for its policies, which in many other countries would be cause to question the viability of a politician. And it's hard not to be against when the president himself wants to demand that social networks and search engines be more favorable to him.

Source The Verge