Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, Feb. 19, 2025
“The Trump administration has enacted a pause on all immigration functions filed by migrants from Latin America and Ukraine allowed into the U.S. beneath sure Biden-era packages, citing fraud and safety issues, based on two U.S. officers and an inside [USCIS] memo obtained by CBS Information. The applying freeze will stay in place indefinitely whereas authorities officers work to determine potential instances of fraud and improve vetting procedures to mitigate issues associated to nationwide safety and public security, based on the directive. … [I]n a memo dated Feb. 14, Andrew Davidson, a prime U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers official, ordered an agency-wide “administrative pause” on all “pending profit requests” filed by migrants already allowed into the U.S. beneath three Biden administration packages. They embody a coverage, referred to as Uniting for Ukraine, set as much as provide a secure haven to these fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Roughly 240,000 Ukrainians with American sponsors arrived within the U.S. beneath that course of earlier than President Trump took workplace. One other affected program, generally known as CHNV, allowed 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans sponsored by Americans to enter the U.S. The third impacted program consists of processes that permitted some Colombians, Ecuadorians, Central Individuals, Haitians and Cubans with American family to come back to the U.S. to attend for a family-based inexperienced card to develop into out there.”
