Maintenance in progress

the us state department imposed visa restrictions barring foreign nationals linked to what it calls far-left terrorist organizations, built on a little-noticed presidential national security directive that is already the legal engine for domestic terrorism prosecutions against protesters. the campaign now has a formal international dimension via a multinational ministerial convened on july 16. using immigration and counterterrorism machinery against a domestic political category, then exporting it, is a structural shift in how the apparatus is aimed.

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