LINDSEY REISER:
00:01:18
And you also have reporting on the administration pausing immigration applications from 19 countries. Can you walk us through that? The Trump administration, Lindsey, has ordered a complete and categorical halt on all legal immigration applications filed by nationals of 19 countries on the president's so-called travel ban. So we are talking about many countries in Asia and Africa, like Somalia and Sudan, also Afghanistan and Iran and three countries here in the Western hemisphere, Haiti, Venezuela, and Cuba. Everyone who has a pending case with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services from those countries is now in legal limbo. If you have a request for a green card or US citizenship and you happen to have been born in those countries, your case is now completely halted, and US officials cannot process that case. We've heard that green card holders who have been here legally for many years, who happened to have been born in those countries, have had their citizenship ceremonies canceled at the last minute because of this policy change that the administration says is needed to mitigate national security concerns in light of that attack last week. We should point out that the suspect in that case entered the country under the Biden administration, but was granted asylum in April under this administration. So people whose ceremonies were imminent are now saying-- they're now being told, you're not going to be a citizen for the time being. For the time being, yes.
LINDSEY REISER:
00:02:34
OK. All right. Camilo Montoya Galvez, thank you.
