The Trump administration’s heightened monitoring of immigrants’ social media accounts seeking grounds to revoke their visas stifles the speech rights of both noncitizens and citizens alike, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) alleges in a new lawsuit.

The lawsuit seeks to end the State Department’s “Catch-and-Revoke” policy, which threatens to strip visaholders of their legal status to stay in the US should the government’s AI-assisted reviews of social media accounts turn up what the administration determines to be support for Hamas or other designated terror organizations. What counts toward that definition might be fairly broad, given that President Donald Trump recently labeled Antifa a domestic terrorist organization in an executive order.

The EFF filed the lawsuit on behalf of

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