Ximena Bustillo

So any sort of scale back won't take much, right?

Remove a thousand, remove two thousand, you still have increased enforcement.

That's notwithstanding what's happening in the rest of America with increased enforcements in states like

Maine.

You know, we're seeing the cutback of more temporary protected statuses and folks are getting detained.

Refugees in Minneapolis and across the country are getting reviewed and sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a pipeline to deportation.

So the policy stays the same.

You know, I met such a range of different people so excited to finally become U.S.

citizens.

Some had barely started the process last year, so it took them a few months to get through it.

Others had been in the country for a really long time, and they all had different reasons for doing it.

So one person I spoke to was Ashley Lazama Moreno.

She's from Honduras but has lived in the United States since she was 18 months old.

And she told me she actually just turned 30 this month, two days before her naturalization ceremony.

And it's finally here.

And that sense of, you know, feeling at peace and security came up a lot when I was talking to folks.

Another person was David Demert.

He's from Canada and has been in the U.S.

since 2001.

And, you know, what we have seen out of the last year of the Trump administration is just a tightening more on the citizenship process.