U.S. halts immigration processing for individuals from 19 nations – NBC New York
The Trump administration has halted immigration processing for individuals from the 19 nations already topic to U.S. journey restrictions imposed in June.
Based on a Division of Homeland Safety memo dated Tuesday, the measure impacts individuals from Venezuela, Cuba, Burundi, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The suspended immigration processes embrace asylum purposes and all remaining immigration proceedings, which have been paused for an intensive evaluation.
The transfer comes days after a capturing in Washington, D.C., left a Nationwide Guard member useless and one other wounded.
The suspect within the capturing is an immigrant from Afghanistan who was granted asylum within the U.S. a number of months in the past.
On June 4, Trump signed a proclamation barring journey to the US for individuals from the identical 19 nations, which are actually included within the new restrictions.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. lawyer for the District of Columbia, mentioned at a Thursday information briefing that the guard members shot had been Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Workers Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24.
