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– Your social media history could determine your U.S. visa eligibility (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News August 11, 2017

The Trump administration has recently pushed forward deeply worrying new rules for people applying for U.S. visas. Government bureaucrats now have arbitrary power to determine who gets a visa, based on their subjective interpretation of an individual’s social media postings.
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