A message from Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, is displayed in a security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta as government-mandated cuts to flights started to take effect. Noem said in a statement on social media on Dec. 1 that she recommended that President Donald Trump enact Òa full travel ban on every damn country thatÕs been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies. (New York Times)

The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by immigrants from 19 countries it restricted from travel to the United States this year, halting green card and US citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, according to agency officials.

The pause applies to people from Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Haiti, Somalia and other

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