A critic called the review a return to “McCarthyism,” a reference to tactics used to identify alleged communists during the Cold War.

A recently created Department of Homeland Security task force is using data analytic tools to scour the social media histories of the estimated 1.5 million foreign students studying in the United States for potential grounds to revoke their visas, three sources familiar with the operation told NBC News. They said records are also being searched for charges or criminal convictions of the student visa holders.

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    The data analytic tools now being used to scour social media were enhanced during the Biden administration, a former Biden administration DHS official said. But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended.

    “We were not targeting political activity or speech. We would only review them if they were inciting violence,” the former Biden administration official said.

    because the former administrations tools never become the latter administrations weapons. america - running towards fascism since 09/11/2001.