The Homeland Security Department is proposing new sanctions that how long foreign journalists can live legally in the United States, while living in the US, they are calling for strict oversight of visa-holders activities while living in the US.
In A proposed rule published in the federal register on Thursday, The DHS asks to limit foreign journalist visa to eight months. The DHS stated that foreign journalists would be eligible for a period of expansion up to eight months, but no more than the length of temporary activity or assignment.
The rule also asks to limit foreign students and to exchange visitors over a period of four years. The public has 30 days to offer comments on the rule.
Previously, journalists could apply for a visa covering the length of their proposed stay, and renewed the extension for a year at a time. Journalists from the People’s Republic of China are allowed to stay in the US for only 90 days.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that they opposed the “discriminatory step of America targeting a specific country”.
This rule comes when the Trump administration has seen roughly to crack down on visa holders, especially in college complexes, cancellation of student visas organized by pro -Palestine protesters.
As part of its immigration crack, the administration temporarily suspended the interview for foreign students, but then restored them with new guidelines, including the demand for their ability to review them.Social media post,
Last week, the administration said that it wasStart reviewing all 55 million valid visa holdersFor any violation that can cause exile.
The latest proposed change is sure to question the fact how the Trump administration will get journalists, including the current and expanding their stay.
The White House has punished the outlet in disagreement on the first coverage.
In July, the administration banned the Wall Street Journal from joining the press pool of President Trump’s visit to Scotland, in which the relationship between the President was accused on defamation paper for his reporting and convicted sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
In February, the White House banned the Associated Press from the Press Pool as it did not refer to the name of the administration of the Gulf of Mexico.
Some reviews of the proposed regulation material float, and draw a line on “reality” entertainment materials.
The Department of External Affairs “considers the information of journalism as the material mainly informative in nature, such as reporting, investigative reporting, or producing educational materials on recent or important events, such as a documentary. It does not contain materials designed to provide entertainment rather than information rather than scripted or controlled conditions, such as the state’s reality television.
DHS determines rules for visa holders while the State Department and American citizenship and immigration services determine qualifications.
The DHS stated that a significant increase in the volume of student visa applicants and holders (F-VISA), exchange visitors (J-VISA) and foreign journalists (I-VISA) is a challenge to the department’s ability to monitor and maintain these non-degenerations when it is in the United States. “
In 2023, F-VISAS had more than 1.6 million entry, 500,000 entry into J position and 32,470 admissions for I-Visas.
“The proposed rules will ensure an effective mechanism for DHS to ensure time -time and direct assessment of whether these non -commissioners are complying with their classification and American immigration laws, as well as allow DHS to obtain time and accurate information about the activities about the activities that they plan and plan to attach to their temporary living in the United States.”
These visa holders can apply to expand their stay with DHS.
“DHS believes that this process will help reduce the risks generated by aliens that live on a non-until a non-existent basis on the basis of contradiction with the underlying statutory language in the United States that apply to their non-immune status,” reads the rules.
The DHS stated that this change would implement “incremental cost” on visa holders, schools and exchange visitor programs. In a 10 -year period of analysis, DHS estimates that the annual cost of the proposed rule will be more than $ 390 million.
