The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications such as requests for green cards for people from 19 countries banned from travel earlier this year, as part of sweeping immigration changes in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard troops.

The changes were outlined in a policy memo posted Tuesday on the website of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency tasked with processing and approving all requests for immigration benefits.

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  • Libya
  • Chad
  • Sudan
  • Somalia
  • Eritrea
  • Iran
  • Afghanistan
  • Myanmar
  • Haiti
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Republic of Congo
  • Yemen

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  • Burundi
  • Cuba
  • Laos
  • Sierra Leone
  • Togo
  • Turkmenistan
  • Venezuela

https://apnews.com/article/trump-travel-ban-d4d74e856e06f1a2626cc1ddbdfaa9f7

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[–] 6 points 11 months ago

Same old racist, different day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769 included Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Why would anyone come here now anyway?

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