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The Trump administration is scaling back on its crackdown on asylum, now allowing immigrants from several countries to apply for asylum in the U.S. The pause on asylum was put on pause after an Afghan man, who was granted asylum in the U.S. in 2025, shot two members of...

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CBS News: The Trump administration is scaling back a crackdown on asylum that brought hundreds of thousands of immigration applications to a standstill. The pause on asylum cases will remain in place for citizens of 39 countries listed in President Trump's "travel ban."
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CBS News: The Trump administration is scaling back a crackdown on asylum that brought hundreds of thousands of immigration applications to a standstill. The pause on asylum cases will remain in place for citizens of 39 countries listed in President Trump's "travel ban."

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Noem: All the information that was gathered on that vetting process was gathered under the Biden administration. His asylum claim application started under the Biden administration. That information was provided by them and the responsibility lies with them. Karl: But again he was granted asylum in April. So president trump had already been in office for several months. You had been in office. Are you saying there was no vetting done by the trump administration? You were simply relying on what had been done under the Biden administration? No vetting before granting him asylum?
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Noem: All the information that was gathered on that vetting process was gathered under the Biden administration. His asylum claim application started under the Biden administration. That information was provided by them and the responsibility lies with them. Karl: But again he was granted asylum in April. So president trump had already been in office for several months. You had been in office. Are you saying there was no vetting done by the trump administration? You were simply relying on what had been done under the Biden administration? No vetting before granting him asylum?

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U.S. President Donald J. Trump addressed the nation tonight following the terrorist attack by an Afghan national in Downtown Washington, D.C., which critically injured two members of the West Virginia National Guard, with President Trump calling the attack an “act of terror” and placing the blame on President Joe Biden and his administration, while also calling for an investigation into all other asylum seekers from Afghanistan.

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A federal judge blocked a series of Trump administration measures that had prevented federal officials from granting asylum, green cards and other legal immigration benefits to many immigrants in the U.S. Camilo Montoya-Galvez explains that one of the policies had halted all legal immigration applications filed by immigrants from 39 countries included in President Trump’s “travel ban” proclamation. The Trump administration enacted the pause on national security grounds, but Chief Judge John McConnell of the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island said it was driven by “anti-immigrant sentiments.”

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A Sikh aunty from Khalistan, in the USA on an asylum claim visa, was caught stealing from a Target store. When she was apprehended, she asked for an interpreter in the national language of Khalistan — Punjabi. She was warned not to come back again and was trespassed from the store. But still not trespassed from the USA. Every year millions of Sikh fake asylum seekers come to the USA.

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