Is this a trap?
Once out of the country could Trump/Miller’s people deny them entrance back?
Of course the system to process these visa’s IS OVER burden so one would assume those affected would have to travel back and forth?
Thus being inconvenienced and maybe giving up seeking the visa?
The Trump administration said on Friday that most foreigners seeking green cards will have to return to their home countries to apply, an extraordinary change that could make it more difficult for hundreds of thousands of people to obtain permanent residency.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that oversees the legal immigration system, said it would grant green cards to people inside the country only in “extraordinary circumstances.” People applying for permanent residency will have to go through consular processing outside the country instead, according to a memo issued by the agency.
“This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes,” Zach Kahler, a spokesman for the agency, said in a statement. “When aliens apply from their home country, it reduces the need to find and remove those who decide to slip into the shadows and remain in the U.S. illegally after being denied residency.”
The change is likely to lead to more families being separated as spouses or relatives wait for decisions on their applications, immigration lawyers and former homeland security officials said. It could also lead to longer processing times as consulates around the world manage an influx of new cases…..
Then there IS this?
6,000 refugees entered the U.S. since October. All but 3 are South African.
The numbers show the radical transformation of America’s refugee program.
….For the refugee resettlement professionals responsible for getting the South Africans started in the United States, it is a head-spinning turnaround. They say the current arrivals are unlike any population they’ve encountered before: They’re fluent in English, highly mobile, sometimes come with financial resources and, in a few cases, have worked in the United States previously.
President Donald Trump has touted his reshaping of the refugee program, framing it as a response to racial persecution and repeating false claims that “a genocide” is occurring in South Africa. Trump’s billionaire backer Elon Musk, who was raised in South Africa, has also made similar claims.
“There’s a very horrible thing going on,” Trump told the audience at a conservative political conference on April 17. “They kill people if they’re White.”
Larry Bartlett ran U.S. refugee admissions for 15 years before retiring in 2024. He said that although it’s conceivable that a handful of Afrikaners might qualify as refugees, the current process is “not a refugee program.”
“They’re not looking across the world for people who are truly in need,” Bartlett said. “They’re looking at one specific country that the Trump White House has decided to focus on for political purposes.” He called it a “travesty” and an “abdication of moral responsibility.”
Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement that it is “shameful” to “diminish the horrific treatment experienced by Afrikaners,” who she said are “no less deserving of help than the thousands of refugees admitted under the Biden administration.”….
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During the Biden administration, the annual limit for refugee admissions was set at 125,000, with dozens of nationalities represented. The current limit of 7,500 is the lowest in the program’s nearly five-decade history….
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