The pause, which will halt green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, deepens a remarkable crackdown on legal immigration pathways in recent days.
A camp for internally displaced people in Somalia in September. It is one of the countries on the travel ban list, which includes some of the poorest and most unstable nations in the world.
The stepped-up enforcement comes as the Trump administration has also moved to reassess the vetting of Afghans who came to the country under the Biden administration.
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