After the shooting of the National Guard, the Administration dies down on the Legal Act

Washington – Sophia Nyazi’s husband, Miladi, shook her awake at 8 AM “Ice is here,” he told her.

Three immigration and customs enforcement agents were on the ground floor of the family’s Long Island, N.Y., home on Tuesday, according to video that was viewed on the stairs.

Nyazi said the providers asked if her husband was applying for a green card. They told him that they would have to hold because of the shooting of two security guards a week earlier in Washington, DC

“He has nothing to do with that shooting,” Nyazi, 27, recalled. “We don’t know that person.”

Its protests don’t matter. The Trump administration has introduced a wide-ranging and unprecedented set of policy changes aimed at severely restricting legal immigration, including immigrants long considered high-risk.

Miladi Nyazi, 28, was arrested because, as the man charged in this shooting that left one member of the National Deand dead, he is from Afghanistan.

The administration has temporarily suspended decisions on all applications filed with the US Immigration Services, or USCIS, by people seeking asylum. Visa and immigration applications for Afghans, which they accepted in 2021 as they draw all the troops to the country, have stopped.

The authorities also receive the processing of immigration cases from 19 countries that the administration considers “high risk” and will review the possibility of receiving people in 2021.

Immigration lawyers say they have learned that dozens of immigration ceremonies and green card negotiations have been canceled for immigrants from Haiti, Iran, Guinea and other countries on the list.

In a few cases, immigration officials have told immigrants to be prepared to issue a green card, but have been unable to do so because of the new guidance, said Gregory’s attorney, who heads federal agencies that work on U.S. immigration laws.

While it’s unclear exactly how many people would be affected by the new rules, 1.5 million immigrants have pending asylum cases through USCIS.

“These sweeping changes have a direct penalty for people who are trying to do things the right way,” said Amanda Baran, senior policy and strategy officer at USCIS under the Biden Administration. “I’m worried about all the people who applied so diligently and whose lives are now on hold.”

Administrative authorities called Nov. 26 Shooting “terrorist attacks” and defended the change as needed to protect the country. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, faces charges from the shooting that killed SPC forces. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, was also seriously injured by Air Force personnel Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24.

“The protection of this country and the American people remains paramount, and the American people will not bear the cost of the administration’s immigration policies,” the USCIS director said. Posted Nov. 27 in X. “American security is non-negotiable.”

Ilakanwal he pleaded guilty Last week and his motive remains under investigation. In Afghanistan, he served in a counterterrorism unit operated by the CIA.

Lakanwal entered the U.S. in 2021 through a bid administration program to return nearly 200,000 Afghans after the U.S. withdrawal, officials said. He applied for asylum in December 2024 and was approved under Trump’s advice in April, according to a statement from the nonprofit #AAFGANENEVAC.

The Afghans who worked with us US troops were believed to be at risk if left under the Taliban – Run government. Along with routine security checks, they are moving to “volorous” vetting, which involves biometric and biographic checks by counterterrorism officers and intelligence experts, the Department of Homeland Security said at the time.

Two federal reports from 2024 and this year pointed to some failings of the screening, including data inaccuracies and the presence of 55 evacuees who were later identified on terrorism watch lists, although the latter report noted that the FBI had then followed all necessary processes to mitigate any potential threat.

It is not clear how the administration will conduct a review of the thousands of people who already live legally in the US. The threat of reopening cases, however, has caused alarm in immigration communities across the country.

Afghan immigrants are likely to call their noses in California by 2023, more than any other state, According to the Center for Migration Policy. Interviews with twelve local community lawyers, family members of those arrested paint an aggressive effort by the federal government to surround recent Afghan immigrants after the DC shooting.

“Unfortunately, I think the administration has taken this very tragic event and risked it as a way to shut down legitimate anger even in the Afghan community,” said Sharvari Dalal-Dheini, director of modest governments at the American Bar Association.

Trump Administration officials pointed to the firing at the policy reform phase last week.

On Friday, Scis announced that there was established a new institution To strengthen the assessment with additional review of immigration applications, in the part that uses artificial intelligence. The USCIS vetting center, based in Atlanta, will “enhance the integration of aliens and allow the agency to respond more smoothly to changing global threats,” the agency said.

On Thursday, Scis said that work permits issued to migrants will expire after 18 months, not five years. This change includes work permits for those who have been admitted as refugees, through green card applications and pending asylum applications.

In a memorable moment on Tuesday Putting a pause on asylum applications and immigration cases for people from 19 countries and facing travel bans, they decided it was “weighted” against the agency’s responsibility to protect and maintain national security. “

Immigrants have already become more cautious since the Trump Administration has canceled temporary programs, except for a limited number of white ashuráners from South Africa – with more efforts to send those who have deportations to countries where they are not connected.

Before the shooting of Washington, A Nov. 21 Memo It indicated that the administration plans to review the cases of more than 200,000 refugees approved under the Biden administration. While asylum seekers work after arriving in the US, refugees apply for admission from outside the country.

Nyazi asked why Afghans were being singled out, noting that a white man allegedly killed Charlie Kirk, but “I don’t see Ice agents going into white people’s homes.”

When asked why Milad Nyazi was arrested, Tricia McLauglin, the State Secretary of Public Affairs for Homeland Security, called him a criminal, two arrests on suspicion of domestic violence.

“Under the Minister [Kristi] Noem, DHS has been busy screening and arresting known or suspected terrorists and illegal aliens who enter through bid-rigging schemes and working to find criminals and threats to public safety in our country,” the public safety statement said.

Nyazi said that the charges, which cannot arise from incidents of physical violence, were thrown there and his history was transferred later.

She and her husband spent 2019 in Afghanistan and applied for an immigration visa, because Nyazi is an American citizen. Their request was approved in 2021. Soon after, through Taliban Takeover, the US government allowed Milad Nyazi to apply for a pending green card, Nyazi said.

On Tuesday, the three-year-old daughter cried and cried as her father was held by the hand and taken away. He has a court hearing this week.

Zahra Biltoo, Executive Director of the San Francisco Bay Support Council for the Council on American-Islamic relations, and others say that Afghans are in various stages of their legal process – not only. He said at least 17 Afghans in the Bay Area have been arrested since Monday.

Advocates say many of the Afghans arrested last week had arrived at the US-Mexico border, where they were seeking asylum.

Paris Etemadi Scott, legal director of the Pars Equality Center in San José, said three of their clients, an Afghan mother and her two sons in their early 20s, were arrested in their 20s. All have pending asylum applications, he said.

Rebecca Olszewski, managing attorney at the Michigan Field Sundly Center, said her Afghan client, who has a high-profile case, was reportedly going to appear next person, where he was arrested.

Since the shootings, administration officials and the President have used artistic language to describe immigrants. When he announced the national ban on 19 Dec. 1, and credited with sending to X that he recommended “a general ban on all the countries that flood our country with murderers, Leeches, and Junkies.”

In a Cabinet meeting the next day, Trump referred to Somali immigrants as “garbage” who “don’t add anything.” (A few days later, Noem said the administration would expand the travel ban to more than 30 countries.)

On Thanksgiving, Trump had it said His social media platform That he intends to “pause permanent immigration from all third world countries” and expel those who are ‘not compatible with Western civilization.’

In recent days, a rhythmic silence has come to the usual haunts of ShafiLullah Hounts in North Sacramento, where the city’s Afghan population is dense. Howak, 38, is an Afghan immigrant who worked as a Program Manager at Reffeee Reserleet Resertettlement for the Lao Family Community Development organization until a federal decision forced him out of the job in May.

On Thursday, immigration agents fell on the doors of an apartment in an apartment on Marconi Avenue, where hundreds of Afghans have arranged. Just one employee stayed at the Afghan-owned tax and bookkeeping business that was full of clients. The nearby park, where youngsters kick off soccer balls and packs of kids roam the back of the school, was empty. And the lines at the halal market known for its afghan bread made from afghame disappeared.

“The situation we have in our community reminded me of when we used to go to work in Afghanistan,” said Hotak. “We had to take different routes every day because the people who opposed the US mission in Afghanistan were targeting people. There were bombs.”

Holak said “kill the eyes,” which is what the US’s enemies in Afghanistan are using to advise how to deal with military aid, to slow down their operations.

“But these days those ‘eyes’ here in the US and the US Government are looking to take them and put them in jail,” said Hotak.

Times Staff writers Castillo reported from Washington and Hussein and Uranga from Los Angeles.