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As Trump Barricades the Border, Legal Immigration Is Beginning to Plunge. President Trump’s border wall is beginning to rise, but a thick curtain of policy changes is more responsible for suppressing the flow of immigrants into the country.
New York Times ^ | February 24, 2020 | Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Posted on 02/24/2020 5:10:43 AM PST by karpov

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s immigration policies — like travel bans and visa restrictions or refugee caps and asylum changes — have begun to deliver on a longstanding goal: Legal immigration has fallen more than 11 percent and a steeper cut is looming.

While Mr. Trump highlights the construction of a border wall to stress his war on illegal immigration, it is through policy changes, not physical barriers, that his administration has been able to seal the United States. Two more measures were to take effect by Monday, an expansion of his travel ban and strict wealth tests on green card applicants.

“He’s really ticking off all the boxes. It’s kind of amazing,” said Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group. “In an administration that’s been perceived to be haphazard, on immigration they’ve been extremely consistent and barreling forward.”

The number of people who obtained lawful permanent residence, besides refugees who entered the United States in previous years, declined to 940,877 in the 2018 fiscal year from 1,063,289 in the 2016 fiscal year, according to an analysis of government data by the National Foundation for American Policy. Four years ago, legal immigration was at its highest level since 2006, when 1,266,129 people obtained lawful permanent residence in the United States.

Although the data provides only a glimpse of the effect of Mr. Trump’s agenda, immigration experts said it was the first sign of a decline that coming policies are most likely to exacerbate. Those include the wealth tests, which will be imposed on immigrants applying for green cards from both inside and outside the United States.

Around two-thirds of the immigrants who obtained permanent legal status from 2012 to 2016 could be blocked from doing so under the new so-called public charge rule

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; immigration; legalimmigration; trumpwall
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That 2/3 of immigrants have been on welfare is a sign that our immigration policies need to change.
1 posted on 02/24/2020 5:10:43 AM PST by karpov
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs


2 posted on 02/24/2020 5:11:59 AM PST by gibsonguy
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Pulitzer-Winning Lies (NY Times)
3 posted on 02/24/2020 5:12:01 AM PST by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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And the others get the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is another form of welfare


4 posted on 02/24/2020 5:16:44 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower CIAramella. PASS IT ON)
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To: karpov

God bless president Trump. Please get ten of your closest friends to the voting booth this November.


5 posted on 02/24/2020 5:17:37 AM PST by JonPreston
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The American culture is changed forever. And all it took was a single generation that did not protect our liberty.


6 posted on 02/24/2020 5:21:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Legal immigration has fallen more than 11 percent and a steeper cut is looming.

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He’s banning the freeloaders and security risks.

The NYTimes sucks, is anti-American, and pro Democrat corruption as usual.


7 posted on 02/24/2020 5:21:38 AM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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I am just imagining the editorial staff just chocking on having to give the President .... any .... credit.


8 posted on 02/24/2020 5:31:19 AM PST by taxcontrol
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No more “coolies” for the corporate liberals.

On to the fainting couch.


9 posted on 02/24/2020 5:34:52 AM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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Geeze! The Slimes reports this like it’s a bad thing?


10 posted on 02/24/2020 5:41:32 AM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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That which the New York Times complains about, I celebrate. I want immigration to drop even more. We need to sort out what’s going on in our own country, before we allow a bunch more people in here. Also, I celebrate Trump’s approach to immigration. We need to be bringing in only those who will contribute to the country, not those who will become dependent on public aid.


11 posted on 02/24/2020 5:50:43 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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12 posted on 02/24/2020 5:55:14 AM PST by nwrep
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We don’t need more congested highways. We don’t need more illiterate children in already crowded classes. We don’t need ever more people living ever less housing. We don’t need to inject millions of people into an already over crowded medical system...especially people who don’t pay for services. Unless they are inventing the next computer, the cure for cancer, room temperature superconductivity, or the space vehicle that will take people to mars, then by all means, otherwise we have enough ethnic food restaurants.


13 posted on 02/24/2020 5:55:54 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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President Trump’s immigration policies

are similar to every other country's immigration policies. Trying to get citizenship in any country is very difficult if not impossible. It was Obama's policies which were highly abnormal.

14 posted on 02/24/2020 6:02:06 AM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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Bookmark


15 posted on 02/24/2020 6:04:59 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS!)
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To: karpov

Subtle wording: suppressing the flow as opposed to reducing the flow of immigrants.


16 posted on 02/24/2020 6:25:15 AM PST by webheart
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Good we need no further immigration of any kind.


17 posted on 02/24/2020 6:37:18 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Well, here’s a tougher immigration policy.

Lest we forget ...

This should be part of a Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement bill, missing since 1986 ONE TIME amnesty. The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1987 goes like this -

1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund.

Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove colonizadors from our welfare rolls.


18 posted on 02/24/2020 6:42:48 AM PST by RideForever (We were born to be tested)
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To: nwrep

As expected.


19 posted on 02/24/2020 6:43:12 AM PST by gibsonguy
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The American culture is changed forever.

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Yep. Has been changing ever since Columbus sailed the ocean blue.


20 posted on 02/24/2020 6:50:45 AM PST by deport
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