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Travis Waldron
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Brazil/LatAm editor at Bloomberg. Brasilia based. Formerly of HuffPost. Kentuckian. Opinions expressed here are mine alone.
Brazil/LatAm editor at Bloomberg. Brasilia based. Formerly of HuffPost. Kentuckian. Opinions expressed here are mine alone.
![Even as Donald Trump has turned the agencies of D.H.S. into something of a roving personal police force, his Administration has prosecuted a quieter but no less ambitious assault on legal immigration. Green cards and visas for people from dozens of countries have been frozen indefinitely, and the Administration has cancelled naturalization ceremonies. Immigrants and asylum seekers in the middle of the application process have been detained during routine interviews. Last April, Mohsen Mahdawi, a student at Columbia University who had a green card, was arrested during his citizenship interview, for which he’d waited a decade. “Is this a trap?” he recalled thinking, after U.S.C.I.S. called him in for an appointment; masked ICE agents took him away just after he’d signed the Pledge of Allegiance. The wife of a green-card applicant who was arrested in Salt Lake City said, “We’ve tried to do everything the right way. We have, and [now] he’s not here.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreid7qkszdahgjbgtbgocveyhd3urdaawzir3sl2ixxfuij532mdkum)
