"In 2025, Trump administration officials-primarily at the Departments of State and Homeland Security-created a mass surveillance program to monitor constitutionally protected speech by noncitizens lawfully present in the U.S. Using AI and other automated technologies, the program has surveilled the social media accounts of visa holders and lawful permanent residents..."
"The federal government is using social media surveillance to target student visa holders living in the United States for online speech the Trump administration disfavors. The administration has initiated this new program, called "Catch and Revoke," in an effort to revoke visas, and it appears to be a..."
In 2025, officials at the Departments of State and Homeland Security created a mass surveillance program to monitor constitutionally protected speech by noncitizens lawfully present in the United States. The program employs AI and other automated technologies to surveil the social media accounts of visa holders and lawful permanent residents. The federal government is using this social media surveillance to target student visa holders for online speech the administration disfavors. The program, called "Catch and Revoke," seeks to revoke visas based on online expression and to identify noncitizens for removal or visa revocation for disfavored speech.
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