Trump immigration application pause throws lives in limbo
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
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Summary
The lives of hundreds of thousands of people living in the country were thrown into limbo after the Trump administration paused their immigration applications in recent months.
They were students, engineers, teachers and others living and working legally in the U.S.
The pause affects those who were born in one of 39 countries the U.S. says pose a national security risk.
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| 1:07.2 | consequence of the Trump administration's aggressive immigration moves. |
| 1:14.4 | This particular immigration policy began last year. My great fellow Americans, earlier today on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, |
| 1:20.0 | two members of the National Guard serving in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:24.6 | was shot at point-blank range. |
| 1:26.9 | That's President Trump speaking last November. On the afternoon |
| 1:29.9 | of November 26th, Army Specialist Sarah Bexstrom and Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe were shot |
| 1:35.9 | when on patrol a few blocks from the White House. Bextram later died of her injuries. |
| 1:41.0 | Rachmane-Lakkenwal, the man charged with the shooting, is an Afghan national. |
| 1:45.2 | He worked with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and was granted asylum under the Trump administration. |
| 1:51.0 | After the shooting, Trump announced a pause on asylum decisions. |
| 1:55.0 | And we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country |
| 2:00.8 | who does not belong here or add |
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