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The State Department has issued a new warning to holders of US visas saying that they are continuously being screened and will be deported if they don’t follow US laws and rules concerning immigration.<\/p>\n
The message was first posted on the the department’s social media pages and was shared by the US Embassy in Barbados which oversees the Eastern Caribbean, including Dominica.<\/p>\n
“U.S. visa screening does not stop after a visa is issued,” the short message reads.<\/p>\n
“We continuously check visa holders to ensure they follow all U.S. laws and immigration rules\u2013and we will revoke their visas and deport them if they don\u2019t.”<\/p>\n
US embassies in Europe have also been posting warnings telling would-be visitors that engaging in behavior deemed harmful by the government could get deported.<\/p>\n
A message by the embassy in Tallinn, Estonia, reads: \u201cWhen you apply to enter the United States and you get a visa, you are a guest. Now, if you are in this country to promote Hamas, to promote terrorist organizations, to participate in vandalism, to participate in acts of rebellion and riots on campus, we never would have let you in if we had known that. You lied to us. You\u2019re out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The embassy in Budapest has a quote from Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, saying, \u201cWe don\u2019t want people in our country that are going to be committing crimes and undermining our national security or the public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Administration officials have described the warnings as reasonable.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollow the law, behave yourselves, be a good visitor and you\u2019ll be fine,\u201d State Department spokesperson, Tammy Bruce said on Monday this week. \u201cIt\u2019s a visa. It\u2019s not an entitlement. A visa and a green card are not birthrights. These are privileges you\u2019re granted … because of what you present to the United States. Every sovereign nation in the world has an interest in controlling who comes in, knowing who\u2019s coming into their country, what their intentions are.\u201d<\/p>\n
The warnings appear to be part of the Trump Administration’s long-promised immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has signed executive orders outlining a sweeping agenda, from declaring an invasion of the US and ending birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n
Mass deportation was a signature of Trump’s 2024 campaign and many of his supporters are expecting results.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press reports that while it is standard practice to scrutinize applicants for US visas, the language being used presently exemplifies the stance that the Trump Administration is taking in regard to who is allowed into the United States, and the behavior that the government sees as acceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The State Department has issued a new warning to holders of US visas saying that they are continuously being screened and will be deported if they don’t follow US laws and rules concerning immigration. The message was first posted on…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":338956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[235,313,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-carousel","category-immigration","category-international-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n