President Donald Trump has directed the federal agency that oversees legal immigration to the U.S. conduct a sweeping review of Green Card holders from what the administration calls countries of concern, the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Thursday.

“At the direction of @POTUS , I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern,” USCIS Director Joseph Edlow said Thursday afternoon in a statement on X .

Edlow said that protecting the country “remains paramount” and that “the American people will not bear the cost of the prior administration’s reckless resettlement policies.”

USCIS did not immediately respond to a request for details on which countries are considered "of concern."

The move

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