Menéndez, Booker Have Questions for DHS on Plans to Monitor Legal Immigrants’ Social Media

New Jersey Democratic Senators Bob Menéndez and Cory Booker led a group of their colleagues in sending a letter to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke, calling into question a recent notice by the Trump administration that DHS would retain "social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search results" of immigrants, including of lawful permanent residents and naturalized U.S. citizens. "Without any information explaining the scope and timing of the Department’s plans to implement social media screening of all applicants for immigration benefits, we are concerned with the constitutional and privacy concerns raised by this action," they wrote. "Not only does this data collection affect immigrants, it would appear to impact any individual in the United States who communicates with an immigrant, including a U.S. citizen." See their letter here.