US uses Google Translate to vet refugees bbc.com

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have been criticised for using online translation tools to vet immigrants' social media posts.

A staff manual said pasting text into tools such as Google Translate and Bing was "the most efficient approach".

News site ProPublica said online tools often mistranslated sentences and misinterpreted nuance and slang.

But the USCIS told the news site that checking social media posts was a "common-sense measure".

The agency said "information collected from social media, by itself, will not be a basis to deny refugee resettlement".