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muriel_volestrangler

(105,291 posts)
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 06:11 AM 13 hrs ago

Trump administration will re-examine green card holders from 19 countries

Source: BBC

The head of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph Edlow, said the president had directed him to conduct "a full scale, rigorous re-examination of every green card for every alien from every country of concern".

When asked by the BBC which countries were on the list, the agency pointed to a June proclamation by the White House, external that included Afghanistan, Cuba, Haiti, Iran, Somalia and Venezuela.
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There were no further details about what the re-examination would look like.
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Last week, the same agency behind the green card review, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced a review of all refugees admitted under former President Joe Biden.


Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgl8j24ky1o



The list:
Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/restricting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-united-states-from-foreign-terrorists-and-other-national-security-and-public-safety-threats/

It's a anti-immigrant's wet dream.
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Trump administration will re-examine green card holders from 19 countries (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler 13 hrs ago OP
Except for white South Africans.... Lovie777 13 hrs ago #1
Does this mean they plan to revoke certain green cards, or what? FakeNoose 11 hrs ago #2
Who knows? I expect they'll revoke a few, to spread the fear muriel_volestrangler 10 hrs ago #3

FakeNoose

(39,688 posts)
2. Does this mean they plan to revoke certain green cards, or what?
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 08:40 AM
11 hrs ago

They've already laid off a lot of personnel at the Immigration Service, so how will they have the manpower to do this kind of review anyway? Meanwhile these immigrants and legal green card holders are living in fear that something dire will happen, and they're powerless to stop it.

Once a green card is legally issued, what are the chances that it might be revoked later? Maybe this is just more sabre-rattling that won't amount to much....

muriel_volestrangler

(105,291 posts)
3. Who knows? I expect they'll revoke a few, to spread the fear
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 09:00 AM
10 hrs ago

And they'll carry on doing that until a court tells them to stop. There may not be any organization to what they revoke - just a vague use of it to hurt the people they hate. And I expect they'll use unqualified personnel to do it, because they don't actually care if it's done "fairly" or "lawfully".

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