President Trump declared a sweeping new immigration crackdown.
He said he would effectively shut down migration from what he dubbed “Third-World countries,” pause all pending immigration applications from dozens of non-European nations, and move to strip benefits from many non-citizens.
The crackdown came early Sunday morning, when federal agencies began canceling many green-card and naturalization interviews.
As part of the response, law-enforcement agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) moved to freeze pending asylum cases and re-review existing immigrant applications from affected countries.