Because you don't need to pause applications to train staff? Schedule a training meeting for an hour on Wednesday. Reschedule the appointments you would have had then. No pause in application.
replyThey aren't really pausing for training. The training is an excuse for the pause. The pause is to cause pain and difficulty and try to get people not to immigrate. Because they don't like immigrants.
Yes, we should assume good faith, the Trump administration has a clear track record of being reasonable and sticking to their word.
replyBecause if that were the case they should have just kept the existing staff that already had the requisite knowledge instead of letting DOGE fire 400 people from DHS who did this kind of thing. You have no backing for your presumption either. The Iran war was supposed to be short. The Trump admin is full of pathological liars. Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.
replyWhat, were they untrained before? Is there a reason this training would take more than (at most) 16 hours?
replyIt's a bullshit excuse that's barely more palatable than the truth, brought to you by the same people who paused immigration for almost all of Africa except for "Caucasian South Africans".
Afrikaaners are a subgroup of what you refer to as Caucasians in South Africa.
replySo an even narrower group, driven mostly by one man's claim that they were being persecuted and warranted refugee status at a time when we pretty much refuse refugee status to applicants from the rest of the world...
replyThere are thousands of dead Afrikanners, what are you talking about? Every other refugee under the sun seemingly gets in with no issues and support from the very organizations meant to keep them out under Biden.
replyWhat Mayorkas alone did to this country is treason: https://x.com/search?q=from%3Afentasyl%20mayorkas&src=typed_...