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Irish tourists heading to the United States may have to give over their social media passwords before getting a Visa to enter.

President Trump's new extreme vetting orders would make travelling to the US for Irish tourists a lot more difficult.

Under Trump's orders homeland security have announced new plans to up demands to get visa demands for tourists, immigrants and refugees.

This new vetting would apply to all countries under the Visa waiver programme which includes France, the UK and Ireland.

Under the Visa waiver programme citizens of 38 countries to travel to the States for 90 days without a Visa under certain stipulations.

Irish visitors could be asked to hand over their passwords for social media accounts and their mobile phones if they wish to get in.

According to The Wall Street Journal people's public as well as private posts on social media would be examined.

Not only that, but the person's financial information and political ideologies could be examined as part of the vetting.

These highly controversial ideologies examinations were discussed by Trump during his campaign.

Questions in this test may involve whether or not they value "sanctity of human life" and if they believe in "honor killings".

Speaking to The Journal, Gene Hamilton, a top aide to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said it is important to know the reasons why people are travelling to The States.

He said: " If there is any doubt about a person’s intentions coming to the United States, they should have to overcome – really and truly prove to our satisfaction – that they are coming for legitimate reasons."

The proposals have come in for a lot of criticism including being blasted by the Center for Democracy a Technology who said it was an invasion of privacy.

In a statement they said: "This proposal would enable border officials to invade people's privacy by examining years of private emails, texts and messages.

"It would expose travellers and everyone in their social networks, including potentially millions of US citizens to excessive, unjustified scrutiny.

"And it would discourage people from using online services or taking their devices with them while travelling, and would discourage travel for business, tourism and journalism."