In August, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that adjudicates and grants immigration benefits like visas, residency, and naturalization, put out a bizarre three-page policy alert. Among other things, it noted vaguely that the agency would scrutinize applicants who "support or promote anti-American ideologies or activities" and "enforce all relevant immigration laws to the maximum degree, including the use of discretion, to deny the benefit request." Effectively, it instructed evaluators to deny people engaged in anti-Americanism, which it did not define there or elsewhere.

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