"On Wednesday, the State Department announced that it would "pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates." The countries affected include Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Nigeria. Among other measures taken to slash legal immigration in 2025, the Trump administration imposed travel restrictions or entry bans on people from 39 countries."
"The Trump administration is not merely stomping out illegal immigration. It is trying, by executive fiat, to return America to the harsh quotas and nation-based restrictions that lasted from 1921 to 1965. In MAGA mythology, these were America's glorious decades. Stephen Miller, one of the president's most powerful advisers, romanticizes it as a period of prosperity and innovation, prematurely stalled because America decided to "open our borders to the entire third world for sixty years.""
The State Department paused immigrant visa processing for 75 countries, citing welfare use, and listed nations including Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Nigeria. The administration also imposed travel restrictions or entry bans affecting 39 countries, concentrating exclusion across Africa, large parts of Asia, and much of the Muslim world while leaving Western Europe largely unaffected. The policy does not curtail temporary visitors but bars family members of U.S. citizens from receiving visas or green cards under public-charge considerations. The administration aims to revive nation-based quotas similar to 1921–1965 rules, a shift critics say will hinder access to global talent and economic progress.
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