The Trump administration has quietly halved the inflow of legalized migrants in 2026, while also blocking nearly all illegal migration, says the New York Times.
\n\nIn February, “the State Department issued just 26,000 immigrant visas, which grant a green card and legal permanent resident status … compared with an average of 52,000 a month in the years before Trump took office,” the newspaper noted.
\n\nThe regulations implemented by President Donald Trump’s deputies sharply reduced the inflow without help from logjammed Congress, the report notes, adding:
\n\n[They] made it all but impossible to immigrate from 91 countries and reduced the number of immigrant visas available in another 61. Africa and the Middle East were hit particularly hard, and immigration from Muslim-majority countries plunged by more than 90 percent.
\n\nVice President JD Vance has been outspoken about the need to cut illegal and legal migration.
\n\nHe has repeatedly said mass migration lets investors cut salaries and grow profits while skimping on the high-tech productivity and training that promote middle-class prosperity.
\n\nMigration also corrodes the civic culture that helps ordinary people, and the overall economy, make the best use of resources, he said. On Sunday, for example, he told CBS:
\n\nMy goal here…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/
