Green card applicants married to U.S. citizens face new uncertainty amid arrests

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Source: NBC News

Dec. 12, 2025, 3:13 PM EST


A British mother holding an infant, a Ukrainian refugee, the wife of a Navy veteran, a German man about to celebrate his first wedding anniversary. These are some of the spouses of U.S. citizens who were recently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at what they thought were going to be routine green card interviews.

There have been several dozen known cases out of San Diego alone, but cases have also been reported in New York City, Cleveland and Utah, according to attorneys and local news reports.

Immigration attorneys told NBC News that this marks an “unprecedented” break in decadeslong practice policy, and that their clients are panicked they could be detained even when they are eligible to become legal permanent residents by law and have no criminal histories.

Jan Joseph Bejar, an immigration attorney in San Diego who recently had a client detained, said if the arrests spread around the country, “It’d be huge. It would be really devastating.” The detentions are one of the latest tactics in President Donald Trump’s policies targeting legal pathways for immigration and increasing scrutiny of green card applicants.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/green-card-applicants-married-us-citizens-arrests-uncertainty-rcna247265

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1. Separating spouses....children from their parents, parents from their children.

Sounds just like Nazi behavior.

[chowder66]

2. So much for Family values.

[ChicagoTeamster]

3. They're trying to prevent people who have already done everything properly from becoming citizens.

This is race based population control. Along with getting rid of vaccines, allowing more contaminants in our food, air, and water so those without the means to live and buy supplies from pricier higher quality locations will have their health more negatively affected. Cutting the dept of education so there are only private religious based schools. Setting up the country so that only the rich will be able to thrive and succeed.

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4. Stephen Miller probably dreams of building gas chambers