Hamed Aleaziz

These were countries like Iran, Eritrea, Sudan, and others.

So people who are already in the United States, who've gone through a lot of process, now have their applications under review.

There is definitely that potential.

They're going to go back and look at potentially hundreds of thousands of records.

A massive review.

We don't know how this is going to take shape and how they're going to do this, but they've announced that they will do this.

And then on Friday, after they'd already announced that they were going to review all the people that had gotten asylum between 2021 and 2024...

But now people already in the United States trying to gain asylum in the process, those applications are now on hold as well, really going after the entire asylum system.

And on that same day, the State Department announces that there will be no more visas for Afghan nationals, cutting off another way for Afghans to enter the United States and

And in fact, a State Department cable that we obtained detailed how Afghan nationals who already had their visas granted and printed and were going to be dispersed to those Afghans, those needed to be destroyed.

Wow.

So they're taking every step possible to target Afghans, not only in America, but abroad.

Yeah, you know, what's really remarkable here is this idea that, yes, we're going to pause a bunch of people from entering the United States, but we're also going to go back and we're going to review people who've already obtained a form of status in the United States.

We're going to go back and look at those records as well.

So it's not only prospective, but it's retrospective as well.

Yeah, these will undoubtedly lead to legal challenges, especially this idea of going back.

These are people who have gone through layers of vetting, layers of interviews, extensive interaction with the U.S.

government, that if they take action on those people, that will lead to, I think, legal action across the United States.

Yeah, and one person who reads this editorial and disagrees with it strongly is the chief of President Trump's immigration crackdown, Stephen Miller.

He went online on social media and said,