This is the Fox News Rundown Extra.

I'm Jessica Rosenthal.

This week we spoke with Ken Cucinelli, a senior fellow for Homeland Security and Immigration for the Center for Renewing America,

and also a former head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the first Trump administration.

We talked about changes to rules for asylum seekers,

refugees, even those with green cards from certain countries following the shooting of two

National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C. Specialist Sarah Bexstrom was killed. Staff Sergeant

Andrew Wolfe was in critical condition. The suspect, Romanoola Lackenwal, was an Afghan national

who worked with U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

He and his family were brought here in 2021 on humanitarian parole. The president and Homeland Security

Secretary then announced new rules. U.S. citizenship and immigration services has paused all

asylum decisions and suspended the processing of Afghan visas and special immigration

visas. They've paused green cards for people from 19 countries and are reviewing benefits

going to migrants from those 19 countries. The validity of work permits for asylum seekers

and refugees was cut to 18 months from five years. What will those changes mean for those who think they get to work and stay in the U.S.?

We often have to cut interviews down for time during the week but thought you might like to hear

this full interview.

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Now here's former USCIS director Ken Cucinelli on the Fox News Rundown Extra.

I want to start. I'm going to kind of walk our listeners through sort of some of the changes we're seeing with regards to vetting and the process.

If you don't fully want to, you know, if you don't really want to answer something or you don't know the answer because you're not in it to that degree anymore, that's fine.

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