The Trump administration on Tuesday (Dec 2) mentioned it paused all immigration functions, together with inexperienced card and US citizenship processing, filed by immigrants from 19 non-European nations, citing concerns over national security and public safety.
The pause applies to individuals from 19 nations that had been already subjected to a partial journey ban in June, putting additional restrictions on immigration – a core characteristic of US President Donald Trump’s political platform.
The listing of nations consists of Afghanistan and Somalia.
The official memorandum outlining the brand new coverage cites the attack on US National Guard members in Washington final week, through which an Afghan man has been arrested as a suspect. One member of the Nationwide Guard was killed and one other was critically wounded within the taking pictures.
Trump has additionally stepped up his rhetoric in opposition to Somalis in current days, calling them “rubbish” and saying “we don’t need them in our nation”.
Since returning to workplace in January, Trump has aggressively prioritised immigration enforcement, sending federal agents to major US cities and turning away asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border. His administration has continuously highlighted the deportation push however till now it has put much less emphasis on efforts to reshape authorized immigration.
The flurry of promised restrictions for the reason that assault on Nationwide Guard members suggests an elevated give attention to authorized immigration framed round defending nationwide safety and casting blame on former President Joe Biden for his insurance policies.
The listing of nations focused in Wednesday’s memorandum consists of Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, which had been subjected to probably the most extreme immigration restrictions in June, together with a full suspension on entries with just a few exceptions.
Others on the listing of 19 nations, which had been subjected to partial restrictions in June, are Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
