The Trump Administration's Response to DC Shooting

NPR reports that the Trump administration is moving to tighten legal immigration reviews after last week’s shooting of two National Guard members in Washington. The shooting suspect is an Afghan national. He was granted asylum this year after arriving in the U.S. through a Biden-era program that provided temporary legal status for those who assisted the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

NPR's Ximena Bustillo tells Up First that she obtained a memo issued by the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that calls for a review of all refugees admitted into the country by the Biden administration. This action would reopen their cases and may involve reinterviewing them, with the possibility that some could lose their status. Immigration advocates claim that the recent immigration changes are destabilizing for families already living in the U.S.