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DHS officials in Tampa tout tougher enforcement, cite pausing Afghan processing and urge action on threats to agents
Summary
At a Tampa press event, Department of Homeland Security officials and Secretary Kristi Noem described enforcement steps — including suspending Afghan immigration processing and halting some asylum decisions — and said agents face rising threats to their families. Officials tied the moves to security concerns and urged public support.
Department of Homeland Security officials used a Tampa press event to outline stepped-up immigration enforcement measures and to decry what they called growing threats to federal agents and their families.
"We don't want them. Not 1," Micah Bach, identified in the event as a deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, said as he described a post-meeting recommendation to the White House for a travel ban on countries described as producing security risks. Bach also said the department had "announced an immediate suspension of all Afghan immigration processing, a full halt on special immigrant visas, and a reexamination of every single entry from high risk nations" and that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had "halted all asylum decisions" until additional vetting could be completed.
The speakers framed the measures as responses to security incidents and to what…
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