Ximena Bustillo

Her department is reopening the cases of refugees who were admitted under Biden and is calling for a review of asylum applications during that time too.

So we're seeing enforcement focus on those here illegally and some legal categories

Thank you.

Lawyers for Abrego Garcia confirmed to NPR he was released this afternoon from the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This comes after a federal judge ordered his release earlier in the day.

The White House has said that it will appeal the order but didn't do so in time to block the release.

Abrego Garcia has become one of the symbols of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown this year.

He was deported to El Salvador in March, contrary to a judge's order,

and he spent several months in a notorious prison.

The administration later brought Abrego Garcia back and charged him with human smuggling.

In her latest filing, Judge Palazzini argues that Abrego Garcia has no pending removal order to justify his continued detention.

Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.

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Citizenship and Immigration Services in a memo on Tuesday said it would pause reviewing all pending applications for green cards, citizenship, or asylum from immigrants of 19 countries listed in a previous travel ban.

President Trump in June announced the travel ban against 12 countries, including Afghanistan, and partial restrictions against seven others.

USCIS also plans to re-review all approved immigration-related requests for anyone from those 19 countries that entered the country since the Biden administration.

That means people who are already approved to be refugees or get green cards could see their applications reopened or newly denied.

The changes come after the agency already paused the processing on all asylum applications after the shooting.

Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.

Immigration judges are more like other federal workers than like judges in the judiciary.