"Sophia Nyazi's husband, Milad, shook her awake at 8 a.m. "ICE is here," he told her. Three uniformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were downstairs at the family's home on Long Island, N.Y., on Tuesday, according to a video reviewed by The Times that she captured from atop the staircase. Nyazi said the agents asked whether her husband was applying for a green card. They told her they would have to detain him because of the shooting of two National Guard members a week earlier in Washington, D.C. "He has nothing to do with that shooting," Nyazi, 27, recalled answering. "We don't even know that person.""
"The Trump administration has put into motion a broad and unprecedented set of policy changes aimed at substantially limiting legal immigration avenues, including for immigrants long considered the most vulnerable. The administration has paused decisions on all applications filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, by people seeking asylum. The visa and immigration applications of Afghans, whom the U.S. had welcomed in 2021 as it pulled all troops from the country, have been halted. Officials also froze the processing of immigration cases of people from 19 countries the administration considers "high-risk" and will conduct case-by-case reviews of green cards and other immigration benefits given to people from those countries since former President Biden took office in 2021. Immigration lawyers say they learned that dozens of naturalization ceremonies and interviews for green cards are being canceled for immigrants from Haiti, Iran, Guinea and other countries on the list."
ICE agents detained a Long Island man after asking about his green-card application and linking him to a recent shooting, despite family protests of his innocence. The administration initiated sweeping policy changes to sharply limit legal immigration, pausing USCIS decisions for asylum applicants and halting Afghan visa and immigration processing. Officials froze cases from 19 countries labeled as high-risk and ordered reviews of green cards and other benefits granted since 2021. Immigration lawyers report cancellations of naturalization ceremonies and green-card interviews for people from affected countries, and families describe sudden detentions and heightened enforcement.
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