US EditionTrump’s New Immigration Crackdown, Briefly Explained
The Trump administration halted immigration from 19 countries citing security concerns after a DC shooting, with USCIS re-reviewing cases since Biden’s term began.
- The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications from 19 affected countries, halting green card and citizenship processing for 12 countries under an earlier this year travel ban plus seven others.
- In response to last week's Washington, D.C. shooting, officials announced the Trump administration paused immigration applications from 19 countries after two National Guard soldiers were killed.
- US Citizenship and Immigration Services said it will re-review cases dating back to the start of the Biden administration and halt green card and citizenship applications from Afghanistan, Iran, Venezuela, and other listed countries.
- The policy immediately pauses asylum applications as part of a wider crackdown and follows the annual refugee cap set in October at 7,500, with nearly all slots likely for white South Africans.
- Critics say these measures revive racial immigration control akin to the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, while legal analysts warn the Immigration and Nationality Act limits presidential authority and such bans face constitutional challenges.
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The US suspends immigration applications from 19 countries. An incident in Washington D.C. serves as a justification. Experts warn of legal challenges.
Trump Immigration Ploy Is A Return To Racial Control Policies
✕ The Trump administration’s latest move on immigration further escalates the right’s power play toward a white nation-state. In particular, the so-called “third world” ban on migration is not about security. It is about control. It is about preserving a white supremacist vision of America — one that sees Black, Brown, and Asian immigrants not as contributors, but as contaminants. Using the pretense of the D.C. shooter being from Afghanistan, th…
The United States suspends the processing of citizenship applications to and residence for 19-country migrants.
Donald Trump has just taken a step on Tuesday, December 2, to suspend all immigration applications from 19 countries considered to be high-risk, reports Le Monde. The countries concerned are: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela and Yemen – the latter State has already been subject to restrictions since…
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