If you're a communist or other totalitarian, don't bother trying to get a green card in the US? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by peeonyou@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Makes you wonder if this is more of a "friends of the US list" and less of a screening-out questionnaire.

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[-] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 month ago

Foreign communists, and others whose potential visits to the U.S. were considered to be not in the best interest of the United States, were prohibited entry into the country. The Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 barred from entry into the U.S. all those who advocated ‘the economic, international and governmental doctrines of world communism or […] of any other form of totalitarianism’.

Past or present membership in the Communist Party was deemed sufficient to prohibit entry. Moreover, for purposes of this Act past membership in Nazi or fascist parties were not considered to be included under the definition of ‘totalitarian’.

(Source.)