Forward Excerpt: AI Repression Uses Law Used Against Jews
State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews
Editor’s Note: Democrats are 100% joined at hip to Trump administration in support of similar repression – especially here in NJ!
“The U.S. State Department is using a McCarthy-era antisemitic law to cancel visas of foreign students who it determines to be “pro-Hamas.”
The program, called “Catch and Revoke,” first reported by Axios on Thursday, will use Artificial Intelligence to scan social media, news reports of anti-Israel protests, and lawsuits by Jewish student groups alleging campus antisemitism.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the American Civil Liberties Union have raised alarms over the government’s apparent violation of First Amendment rights, but little attention has been given to the legal basis of the project.
“The Immigration Nationality Act of 1952 gives the secretary of state the authority to revoke visas from foreigners deemed to be a threat,” wrote Axios, citing senior State Department officials in its reporting.
The 1952 law, also known as the McCarran-Walter Act, codified immigration restrictions of “subversives” and communists. The act’s quotas and ideological litmus test were widely understood at the time to target Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet agents.”
