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Trump ramps up scrutiny of legal immigrants
https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/homenews/administration/398116-trump-ramps-up-scrutiny-of-legal-immigrants%3famp
The Trump administration is stepping up efforts to curb legal immigration, taking a series of actions in recent weeks that could lead to deportation for people already granted citizenship.
The director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) - an office established in 2003 to process immigrant applications for visas, work permits, green cards and citizenship - told The Associated Press recently that the agency is hiring dozens of lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants who are suspected of having lied to officials during the naturalization process.
The office made public on July 5 a memo announcing its plan to start issuing notices to appear for a wider range of cases. Those notices, which require an immigrant to appear before an immigration judge on a certain date, can be the first step in deportation proceedings.
Experts say that policy change, coupled with what came next, could vastly expand the number of individuals being referred for removal.
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