The Trump administration has paused processing of immigrant visas, which allow recipients to move permanently to the U.S., to train visa officers on new guidance ensuring that applicants have enough financial means to support themselves after they arrive. Immigrant visa applicants with interviews scheduled at U.S. embassies and consulates have been notified by email that their appointments are being postponed. Applicants for immigrant visas most commonly include spouses, parents and siblings of U.S. citizens, as well as some people sponsored by U.S.-based employers, such as foreign nurses to work at underserved hospitals. Foreigners on immigrant visas are granted green cards upon arrival.

The Trump administration has trained much of its immigration crackdown on people who entered the United States illegally from Mexico and elsewhere, but it is intensifying another battle, this time with people who come legally. The State Department has paused all immigrant visa applications while it briefs consular officials around the world on a new policy that aims to keep out people who are considered potential drains on public coffers.

The tell came immediately from the stock market. Meta shares rose 4.4 percent in premarket trading Wednesday as the company agreed to a proposed settlement worth up to $16.68 billion over child-safety claims. It's a reaction that captures the somewhat perverse economics of penalizing one of America's richest companies.

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from Sputnik News: Problems with the US military’s Drone Dominance initiative stem from a broad assortment of issues, the biggest of which is a “longstanding departmental cultural and institutional lethargy and a kind of neo-Luddism inside the Pentagon,” Lt. Col. (ret.) Karen Kwiatkowski, a former DoD analyst herself, told Sputnik. TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/ Commenting […]

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by Jon Bowne, Alex Jones Live: Two Saudi government employees “may have served as an advance team” for the hijackers, new report reveals. The families want the phone records and the full analysis. In a 1999 video the 9/11 Commission conveniently never explored, Catherine Herridge’s latest bombshell exposes FBI and CIA records that two Saudi government employees […]

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