It's sometimes an irritating feature of the law for State's purposes, but it's still the law (INA section 212a3c, not the 7031c program).
When I raised this with State officials last year after Sarah Rogers engaged in this particular form of law-breaking, they just ignored the question.
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U.S. bars five Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints online
Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterized them as "radical" activists and "weaponized" nongovernmental organizations.
