Trump went full nuclear on immigration after an Afghan guy shot two National Guard members, and the crackdown is hitting legal immigrants harder than anything we've seen in forever. The administration paused every single asylum decision for people already here, started reviewing green cards from 19 countries, and basically froze all Afghan immigration applications. Around 1.5 million people with pending asylum cases are potentially screwed, plus tens of thousands who already got approved under Biden.
Immigration experts are saying this kind of wholesale shutdown has never happened before, and it's way beyond normal security checks. People who already jumped through all the legal hoops to get green cards or asylum are freaking out because Trump hinted at denaturalization. One Iranian pastor in LA said his whole congregation is panicking after some members got detained just showing up for their regular check-ins.
Immigration experts are saying this kind of wholesale shutdown has never happened before, and it's way beyond normal security checks. People who already jumped through all the legal hoops to get green cards or asylum are freaking out because Trump hinted at denaturalization. One Iranian pastor in LA said his whole congregation is panicking after some members got detained just showing up for their regular check-ins.
