A Jewish civil rights group is asking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) how it plans to evaluate migrants’ social media accounts after the agency said it would use antisemitic content as grounds for denying immigration benefits.

The department said Wednesday that it would “begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media” as it weighs whether to approve applications for green cards or student visas.

But the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), an 80-year-old, nonpartisan Jewish advocacy group, asked DHS how it plans to make that evaluation.

“Make no mistake: the threat of antisemitism is real and rising in the United States and around the globe,” the group’s CEO Amy Spitalnick wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

“At the same time, this new policy raises significant questions as to how it will be applied — particularly as many in the Jewish community have already expressed deep concerns about how our legitimate fears of antisemitism are being used as the pretext to advance policies that undermine rights such as due process and our core democratic norms and values, which ultimately threatens the safety of Jews and all communities.”

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