Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced new visa restrictions that the Trump administration is implementing against foreign authorities who say they are “accomplices” to censor the North -Americans.
“For too long, the North -Americans have been fined, besieged and even accused by foreign authorities to exercise their free expression rights,” Rubio wrote about X. “Today, announces a new policy of visa restrictions that will be applied to foreign officials and people who are complicit in censoring North -Americans. that foreign governments have no authority. ”
Trump administrator who asks federal agencies to cancel the remaining Harvard contracts
Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens during an audience of the Chamber Committee on Foreign Affairs Hill, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
“Foreigners working to undermine the rights of North -Americans should not enjoy the privilege of traveling to our country,” added the highest diplomat in America. “Whether in Latin America, Europe or elsewhere, the days of passive treatment for those who work to undermine the rights of the North -Americans have finished.”
The United States has condemned the censorship and repression of the Chinese Communist Party, Russia and the Iranian and Cuban regimes, but the Trump administration has added more recent criticism against the Allies in Europe.
The Vice President JD Vance argued that the European Union Digital Services Act could effectively export European-style censorship to the United States by pressure against American technology companies.
In February, Vance accused the European leaders of the Munich Security Conference of suppressing dissident opinions by classifying these opinions as “misinformation” and “misinformation”.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer, meets with President Donald Trump at the Oval Office of the White House on February 27, 2025 in Washington, DC (Carl Court – Pool/Getty Images)
Vance is right about free expression. This is what makes the EU and the United States so crazy
The Vice President specifically cited the UK Prosecutor’s Office for a silent prayer outside a abortion clinic, annulment of the results of the Romanian presidential election of 2024 on alleged foreign interference, the sentence of a Christian activist in Sweden for burning a native of a native of the online anticheminist views.
“What worries me is the threat from the inside: the removal of Europe from some of its most fundamental values,” Vance said at the time.
Vance reiterated the concerns of freedom of expression with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, during his Trump meeting at the Oval Office at the end of this month.
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies to the Committee of the Chamber of the Sub -Committee’s Budget Audience for the State Department and programs related to Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
As protests and riots against mass migration exploded throughout the United Kingdom last summer as a response to the fatal stabbing of three young girls in a Taylor Swift dance class, British authorities threatened to extradite and imprison American citizens for disingonging the “ uninformed misinformation ” that violates the laws of the country. According to reports, the 17 -year -old suspect was born in the United Kingdom of Rwanda parents.
Click here to get the Fox News app
This is a development story. Re -check if there are updates.
#Rubio #announces #visa #restrictions #complicated #foreigners #censor #north #Americans
Image Source : www.foxnews.com