The United States will review all permanent residences, known as “green cards”, granted to citizens of almost twenty countries after the shooting attack against two members of the National Guard in Washington, the Donald Trump government announced this Thursday (11/27/2025). Among the countries mentioned are Venezuela and Cuba.
“At the direction of the President of the United States, I have ordered a complete and rigorous review of each green card issued to every foreigner from a country considered at risk,” wrote Joseph Edlow, director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), on X (Twitter).
The list of countries includes the 19 that were mentioned in a decree signed by Trump in June to prohibit the entry, for “national security”, of people from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, in addition to restricting those from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
For the American people
USCIS itself had announced the suspension of immigration applications for Afghans on Wednesday, minutes after a message to the nation from Trump, who blamed the immigration policies of his predecessor, Joe Biden (2021-2025), for the entry into the country of the Afghan citizen accused of having shot the two national guards near the White House.
“The protection of this country and the American people remains paramount and the American people will not bear the cost of the previous administration’s reckless resettlement policies,” Edlow concluded.
This new order represents additional immigration restrictions for Cubans and Venezuelans, communities in which there was support for Trump in the 2024 elections. The president has previously asked to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and the ‘humanitarian parole’ program for Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians and other nationalities.
DZC (EFE, AFP)
