U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has halted all asylum decisions, the agency's director, Joseph Edlow, said on Friday.

The announcement comes a day after an attack on National Guard troops near the White House. Authorities have identified the suspect as an Afghan national.

The US will reexamine all green cards issued to people from 19 countries “of concern” at President Donald Trump’s direction, as the Trump administration intensifies its immigration crackdown following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington,

Everyone has been terrific, I can’t thank them enough,” he said outside the Otay Mesa Detention Center after a judge granted bail for Hanne.