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U.S. wants to check Chinese visitors' social profiles


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Was not sure where to put this. Seems like an extreme waste of time but may be designed just to put people off from visiting. And of course we can all believe that there would be no "negative interpretation or inference."

 

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/20/the-us-wants-to-check-chinese-visitors-social-media-profiles/21717527/

 

"U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to publish a proposal asking travellers from China to disclose what social media platforms they use, and what their handles are, according to Politico.

 

Holders of business and visitor visas will be affected by the move — amounting to almost 3.6 million applicants per year, the proposal estimates.

However, travellers can choose not to disclose the information, and will still have their requests processed "without a negative interpretation or inference."

The move is meant to increase security as well as to "facilitate legitimate travel."

 

Of course the vitriol in some of the comments is more concerning.

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Interesting predicament for a Chinese especially. The US could take that information and "trade" it for information the Chinese might give them. Then the Chinese could be persecuted for having an illegal social media profile. If they were so persecuted they then could appeal to the US as a refugee.

 

I really wonder what goes on in the minds of some of these "government" law enforcement officers. They might get away with doing it at the border, but the law says once they are in the country and part of the "people" they have the rights (but not all privileges) in the Constitution including speech. They can just say NO or refuse to answer the question at the border. But when they become "the people" (a legally defined term meaning they are enjoined within the community) they can tell the cop to do the anatomically impossible.

 

http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1942&context=facpub

 

 

In Chew, the Court said:“[O]nce an alien lawfully enters and resides in this country he becomes invested with the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people within our borders.”

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