U.S. pauses all immigration applications from 19 non-European countries

The Trump medication connected Tuesday said it paused each migration applications, including greenish paper and U.S. citizenship processing, filed by immigrants from 19 non-European countries, citing concerns implicit nationalist information and nationalist safety.

The intermission applies to radical from 19 countries that were already subjected to a partial travel ban in June, placing further restrictions connected migration - a halfway diagnostic of U.S. President Donald Trump's political platform.

The database of countries includes Afghanistan and Somalia.

The authoritative memorandum outlining the caller argumentation cites the onslaught connected U.S. National Guard members successful Washington past week successful which an Afghan antheral has been arrested arsenic a suspect. One subordinate of the National Guard was killed and different was critically wounded successful the shooting.

Trump has besides stepped up rhetoric against Somalis in caller days, calling them "garbage" and saying "we don't privation them successful our country."

Since returning to bureau successful January, Trump has aggressively prioritized migration enforcement, sending national agents to large U.S. cities and turning distant asylum seekers astatine the U.S.-Mexico border. His medication has often highlighted the deportation propulsion but until present it has enactment little accent connected efforts to reshape ineligible immigration.

The flurry of promised restrictions since the onslaught connected National Guard members suggests an accrued focus on ineligible migration framed astir protecting nationalist information and casting blasted connected erstwhile President Joe Biden for his policies.

The database of countries targeted successful Wednesday's memorandum includes Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, which were subjected to the astir terrible migration restrictions successful June, including a afloat suspension connected entries with a fewer exceptions.

Others connected the database of 19 countries, which were subjected to partial restrictions successful June, are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

The caller argumentation places a clasp connected pending applications and mandates that each immigrants from the database of countries "undergo a thorough re-review process, including a imaginable interrogation and, if necessary, a re-interview, to afloat measure each nationalist information and nationalist information threats."

The memorandum cited respective caller crimes suspected to person been committed by immigrants, including the National Guard attack.

Sharvari Dalal-Dheini, elder manager of authorities relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said the enactment had received reports of cancelled oath ceremonies, naturalization interviews and accommodation of presumption interviews for individuals from countries listed connected the travel ban.