The United States Government has communicated this Thursday a new directive to limit the granting of visas to members of "far-left terrorist groups" and "related" organizations, with the aim of "restricting" the entry of "foreigners who finance, recruit, incite, or facilitate" the "activities" of "violent and criminal terrorist networks" of this ideological bent.
"Today, the State Department has imposed new visa restrictions to prevent far-left terrorists from entering our country," stated the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in a social media message in which he affirmed that "foreigners who finance, incite, or collaborate with far-left terrorists are enemies of our civilization and are not welcome in the United States."
The provision is specifically aimed at members of "far-left terrorist groups" and related organizations that have "supported or incited" the commission of "acts of terrorism"; supported violent criminal activities; taken part in economic sabotage; financed, recruited, or provided logistical support to violent or illicit actions of these structures, and/or facilitated the articulation of terrorist networks of this current to carry out violent attacks.
As detailed by the Secretary of State in an official statement, this policy aims to "protect" the country through the "restriction" of access for "foreigners who finance, recruit, incite, or otherwise facilitate the activities of far-left terrorist, violent, and criminal networks."
To implement this approach, the Donald Trump Administration will promote the closure of "visa acquisition channels" that, according to the Executive, these groups "exploit" to "threaten American lives, undermine economic stability, and coordinate violent actions on U.S. territory."
"Far-left and related terrorist groups often use sophisticated and organized networks to perpetrate acts of violence as a political tool, with the aim of imposing an extremist political vision through intimidation and coordinated terror campaigns," the State Department indicated in describing the functioning of these organizations.
The department headed by Rubio underlines that all of this is part of a "strategy" whose "explicit objective" is to "undermine the political foundations of free and autonomous societies, using bombings, assassinations, and other forms of terrorism to silence freedom of expression, limit political opposition, alter policy outcomes, and sabotage political processes."
This move comes shortly after the US Executive Branch designated, hours earlier, Los Viagras and the Juárez Cartel as foreign terrorist organizations, following their "numerous" attacks, including the "massacre" of nine people of Mexican and American nationality in the state of Sonora, Mexico, in late 2019.