Ximena Bustillo

Still in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said investigators have other leads.

These changes came days after the administration said it would review refugee status of those already living in the U.S.

A refugee is a person outside the U.S.

who is forced to flee their home country due to violence, persecution, or other issues that put them in danger.

The process can take years of vetting before someone is approved to enter the U.S.

Now the administration is reconsidering those already here.

I obtained a memo issued by the Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services late last month.

That memo calls for reviewing all refugees admitted into the country under the Biden administration, essentially reopening their cases.

They may need to be re-interviewed and some may lose their status.

The memo says the agency should quote, only admit refugees that can fully and appropriately assimilate.

Immigration advocates have called the recent changes on refugee reviews, visa, and green card applications deeply destabilizing to families already in the U.S.

Right.

Asylum, a different process.

And as I mentioned, all asylum applications were paused after the shooting.

During that interview yesterday with NBC's Meet the Press, Noam said asylum reviews would restart when the agency has, quote, dealt with the backlog.

There is a one million case backlog at USCIS.

For now, the administration is likely to continue to scrutinize not just those who want to come to the U.S., but also those who are already here.

About 80 people were being prepared to board a deportation flight headed to the Polish border with Ukraine.

But only 50 people ended up in Ukraine, Ukrainian border officials said.

Lawyers for some of the men raised concerns that international law doesn't allow deportations to places where people could face violence or torture.