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This article appeared in the December 19, 2025 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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Trump’s immigration crackdown on ‘high-risk countries’

Linda Feldmann
Washington Bureau Chief

Mounifa Prosnitz, originally from Brazil, walked into the Moakley U.S. Courthouse in Boston last week as a permanent resident of the United States and walked out a U.S. citizen. “Now I can vote,” she told the Monitor. “I can serve the country.”

Other stories aren’t so happy. At naturalization ceremonies across the country, lawful permanent residents are being pulled out of line and denied citizenship if they’re from a country identified by the Trump administration as “high risk.” What’s more, the administration is reportedly looking to strip foreign-born Americans of their citizenship if it was “unlawfully obtained.”

Though , President Donald Trump’s immigration policies are affecting real people in real ways, report Victoria Hoffmann and Cameron Pugh.


This article appeared in the December 19, 2025 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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