The Trump administration's new halt on immigration applications from countries including Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela has created alarm in South Florida — and a rare rebuke from a Miami congresswoman.

Since late last week, immigration attorneys across Miami and other cities here tell WLRN that immigration processes like citizenship ceremonies and green card (legal residence) appointments have suddenly been cancelled.

"A young Venezuelan man whose green card interview through marriage was scheduled for [this week] just got a call two hours ago cancelling the appointment, with no explanation," one Miami attorney said.

The explanation, though, is a new Trump administration directive — issued in the wake of last month's shooting in Washington D.C. of two National Guard soldiers, one fatal, by

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