Beyond mass deportations: Trump allies schedule legitimate immigration crackdown

Former Plivent Donald Trump has made immigration a caccesspiece of his campaign: he’s promised mass deportations, a crackdown on asylum at the border, and a prohibit on mortgages for unrecorded immigrants. But while Trump rails aacquirest illegitimate immigration, his allies and advisors are also preparing to acutely reduce legitimate immigration, the Wall Street Journal tells.

Groups including the America First Policy Institute, a leank tank that has been advising Trump’s campaign, have writeed executive orders, regulations, and memos that would lean the paths for legitimate migration to the US, according to a dozen establisher Trump administration officials that spoke with the Journal. Some of the proposals — appreciate a prohibit on travelers from certain Muskinny-presentantity countries — are recycled from Trump’s first term. Other schedules participate a total prohibit on refugee refinishment and a paemploy on huging applications for categories of immigration with huge backlogs, including asylum and employment-based green cards for Indian tech toilers.

Trump also remercilessed legitimate migration during his first term. Trump reduceed the ceiling on the number of refugees that could be refinishd in the US each year he was in office. He broadened extfinishedstanding “uncover accuse” regulations, allothriveg immigration officials to refute green cards to immigrants they mistrusted would get uncover helpance. Still, acute reductions in legitimate immigration would be a radical shift even for the Trump administration — one that is underscored by the ultra-nationacatalog rhetoric of Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).

Vance has repeatedly accemployd rising housing costs on immigrants, and has decried Plivent Joe Biden’s parole policy — which lets migrants from countries including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela live and toil in the US for up to two years — as illegitimate.

Stephen Miller, a anciaccess recommendr during Trump’s first term and one of the architects of the administration’s family separation policy, has also conveyed a desire to reduce legitimate migration. “Refugee refinishment is ‘legitimate.’ Chain migration is ‘legitimate.’ Diversity lottery is ‘legitimate.’ Islamist green card migration is ‘legitimate.’ And it’s why we necessitate the Trump Travel Ban back now,” Miller posted on X in January.

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, the carry outbook written up by the right-thriveg Heritage Foundation, also recommends finishing so-called “chain migration,” i.e., family-based migration. The Mandate’s chapter on the Department of Homeland Security, written by establisher Trump DHS official Ken Cuccinelli, recommfinishs replacing our family-based immigration system with a “merit-based system that rewards high-sfinished aliens.”

Cuccinelli’s other proposals participate finishing the diversity visa lottery, which gives people from countries with low immigration rates to the US a chance to execute for finishuring livency. These policies would need congressional action and are therefore improbable to happen, but they’re still an teachive see at what Trump and his allies hope to accomplish during a second term.