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Trump Restrictions on Legal Immigration Could Shar..
7 hours ago ... While much attention has focused on its efforts to tackle unauthorized immigration, the Trump administration has been methodically shutting down a wide ...
Green Card Approvals Cut in Half by Trump Admin—How Applicants ...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reduced green card approvals by roughly half and slowed the processing of pending applications across multiple immigration categories, according to an analysis by the libertarian think tank Cato Institute.The study found that approvals for lawful permanent residence fell in most categories, excluding employment-based visas, with overall green card grants dropping by roughly half from earlier levels.A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees USCIS, told Newsweek, "The Biden administration failed American citizens by undermining basic vetting and screening processes for aliens. Unfortunately, this recklessness allowed dangerous people, including national security threats, into our country who may pose a serious risk to the nation."Why It MattersPresident Donald Trump's administration has clamped down on legal migration and tightened pathways, making it more difficult to obtain lawful permanent residency and other visas....What To KnowFamily-based green card approvals fell 54 percent between July 2025 and January 2026, while total approvals in January 2026 were 22 percent lower than in January 2025, according to the analysis.Family-sponsored green card approvals were 30,699 in January 2025 when Trump returned to office, rose to 52,181 in July 2025 after Joseph Edlow was confirmed as head of USCIS, and then plummeted to 23,847 in January 2026, the report said.The report also found that some humanitarian categories saw steep reductions, including refugee admissions and Cuban adjustment cases. During the same period, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests of Cuban parolees rose 463 percent, coinciding with what the analysis described as a near shutdown in Cuban green card approvals.Cato's analysis says the declines were not evenly distributed. Employment-based immigration was comparatively stable, while humanitarian pathways, including refugees, asylees, and parole-based applicants, experienced the steepest cuts.Under the second Trump administration, USCIS has coordinated much more closely with ICE to conduct arrests of immigrants at government offices around the country."By obstructing their ability to receive green cards, USCIS degrades the rights of these applicants and may even cause them to lose their underlying status," said Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies David J Bier, the report's author."This is a deliberate effort to boost ICE arrests by th...
America's worker shortage grows as legal immigration faces new limits
12 hours ago ... Yet in January 2025, the president signed an executive order that completely ended the opportunity to apply for asylum. The order slashed lawful entries by ...
Trump slammed the door shut on 300,000 asylum seekers. What ...
One of the first moves the Trump administration made was to shut down a pathway to seek asylum in the US for people in Mexico using a cellphone application ...
