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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.
The Trump administration has brokered deportation deals with countries with notorious human rights records or those facing conflicts as it seeks to ramp up mass deportations.
South Sudan, Libya, Eswatini, Rwanda, El Salvador, among others, have agreed to take in deportees from the United States regardless of the migrants' nationalities.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
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.
The Trump administration has brokered deportation deals with countries with notorious human rights records or those facing conflicts, as it seeks to ramp up mass deportations.
South Sudan, Libya, Eswatini, Rwanda, El Salvador, among others, have agreed to take in deportees from the United States regardless of the migrants' nationalities.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.