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DHS S&T Supporting Efforts to Exploit Social Media for Immigration Vetting

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

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The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology (S&T) branch is supporting an effort begun last December to better leverage social media to vet immigrants for potential ties to terrorism in the wake of the terrorist shootings earlier that month in San Bernardino, Calif., a senior department tells Congress.S&T is using its Data Analytics Engine in a pilot with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to address K-1 visas that are issued to foreigners that are coming to the U.S. to…

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