The Trump administration suggests shortening residencies to foreign journalists
The Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) proposes new restrictions on the period that foreign journalists can remain legally in the United States, calling for the most stringent supervision of visa owners’ activities while they are in the United States
At a proposed base published in the federal registry on Thursday, the Ministry of National Security calls for a limited foreign journalist visa to eight months. The Ministry of National Security said that foreign journalists will be qualified for an extension period of up to eight months, but it is no longer the length of activity or temporary task.
Al -Qaeda also calls for limiting foreign students and exchanging visitors to a period of four years. The audience has 30 days to make comments on the base.
Previously, journalists can apply for visas covering their proposed length and renewal for one year at a time. Journalists from the People’s Republic of China are only allowed to stay in the United States for up to 90 days.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that they opposed “the discriminatory step of the United States targeting a specific country.”
This rule comes as the Trump administration is widely looking to suppress the visa holders, including nullifying the visas of the student protesters in support of Palestine, especially on the campus of universities.
As part of the Immigration campaign, the administration has temporarily suspended interviews for foreign students, but then re -guidance, including the demand for the ability to review their social media publications.
Last week, the administration said it would launch a review of all 55 million good visa holders for any violations that may lead to deportation.
Certainly, the latest change in the proposal is to ask questions about how the Trump administration won journalists, including those present and want to extend their residence.
The White House has already punished outlets due to the differences on coverage.
In July, the administration prevented the Wall Street Journal from joining the press group of President Trump’s journey to Scotland, accusing the defamation paper of its reports on relations between the President and the perpetrator, Jeffrey Ibstein.
In February, the White House banned the Associated Press of the Press Group because it did not depend on changing the name of the administration in the Gulf of Mexico.
The proposed list floats some content review, and it seems that it draws a line on the “reality” entertainment content.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is considered “journalistic information as a content in nature in nature, such as reports on modern or important events, investigative reports, or the production of educational materials, such as documentaries. The content is mainly designed to provide entertainment instead of information, including text or contrived situations, such as most realistic television offers, such as” cases of organization “.
The Ministry of National Security determines regulations for visa holders, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Citizenship and American Immigration Services determines qualifications.
The Ministry of National Security said that a significant increase in the size of applicants and student visa holders (Fisas), visitors to the exchange (J Visas) and foreign journalists (I visas) constitute a challenge to the administration’s ability to monitor and supervise these immigrants while they are in the United States.
In 2023, there were more than 1.6 million admission of F -visa holders, 500,000 acceptance holders J and 32,470 visa holders.
“The proposed base will guarantee an effective mechanism for the Ministry of National Security to evaluate periodic and direct whether these immigrants are compliance with the conditions of their rankings and the laws of American immigration, as well as allowing the National Security Ministry to obtain accurate and accurate information in time about the activities they participated in and plan them during their temporary residence in the United States.”
Visa owners can apply to extend their residence with DHS.
“DHS believes that this process will help reduce the risks offered by foreigners who seek to exploit these programs and live in the United States on an imperfect basis in contradiction with the basic legal language that applies to their unprocessed situation,” says Al Qaeda.
DHS said the change “will impose gradual costs” on visa holders, schools and visitor programs. Over a period of 10 years of analysis, the Ministry of National Security estimates that the proposed base will have an annual costs a little more than $ 390 million.
