Andrew Sage

So that's a special immigrant visa, right?

The vast bulk of SIVs will be Afghan people who worked with the U.S.

military in Afghanistan.

Right.

The 19 countries who are now partially restricted are, I'm just going to read them off, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

For some reason, the first five of these are underlined on the White House website.

I don't know if someone copied and pasted them across with hyperlinks.

I don't know.

I'm unable to work out why.

They're not hyperlinked in the document, but there doesn't seem to be any explanation.

There's no special set of sanctions for those, and they're just in alphabetical order.

They actually reduced restrictions on Turkmenistan because, quote, "...suspension of entry into the United States of Nationals of Turkmenistan as non-immigrants on B1, B2, FM and J visas is lifted.

Because some concerns remain, the entry into the United States of Nationals of Turkmenistan as immigrants remains suspended."

The last element of this that I want to cover is that it would appear to stop international adoptions from the listed countries, like all of those 39 listed countries, which is wild and particularly unfortunate because I know like...

I can imagine it being horrifically traumatic to have it suddenly cut off like this.

But consciously or unconsciously, that is what this...

executive action appears to do so that is not great it seems that the united states is using this as a kind of cudgel right to encourage those countries to it's kind of a quid pro quo they get what they want and they got from turkmenistan apparently then they will remove some of those restrictions otherwise they they they will continue them so yeah that's not great

So Judge Hannah Dugan's trial began this week.

Dugan, if you're not familiar, she's not the judge in New Mexico who was accused of providing firearms to somebody who was not a permanent resident or citizen.

She is a judge who is accused of allowing a migrant, a man named Mr. Flores Ruiz,