{"id":129095,"date":"2026-04-24T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/america-needs-workers-but-trumps-policies-are-sharply-cutting-legal-immigration-129095"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:00:47","slug":"america-needs-workers-but-trumps-policies-are-sharply-cutting-legal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/america-needs-workers-but-trumps-policies-are-sharply-cutting-legal-immigration-129095","title":{"rendered":"America needs workers, but Trump’s policies are sharply cutting legal immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump stood\u00a0before Congress in 2019 and said, “Legal immigrants enrich our nation and strengthen our society in countless ways. I want people to come into our country in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally.” In 2024, as he ran for reelection, he repeated\u00a0the point: “We need people.”<\/p>\n

The president was right. But since Trump reentered office, his administration has cut legal immigration dramatically<\/a>. Illegal immigration is down, too, but not as much. All told, the administration has cut legal immigration twice as much as it has cut illegal immigration<\/a>. Indeed, my report for the Cato Institute, which President Trump cited, shows the immigration decline has come mainly from fewer legal immigrants.<\/p>\n

The president previously promised\u00a0to prioritize Christian refugees, saying “we are going to help them.” But he has not. In 2024, most refugees vetted abroad and admitted legally to the U.S. were Christians, yet he cut\u00a0the refugee program from 125,000 to 7,500. It now admits only a small number of South Africans. There are zero slots for religious persecution.<\/p>\n

FEDERAL COURT BLOCKS NEWSOM’S BID TO SHACKLE ICE IN TRUMP IMMIGRATION WIN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

If persecuted people can somehow make it to the United States<\/a>, the law protects their right to apply for\u00a0asylum status. In 2018, President Trump encouraged asylum seekers to apply to enter legally, promising\u00a0that immigrants may “avail themselves of our asylum system, provided that they properly present themselves for inspection at a port of entry.”<\/p>\n

Yet in January 2025, the president signed an executive order\u00a0that completely ended the opportunity to apply for asylum. The order slashed lawful entries by asylum applicants by 99.9 percent. On Truth Social, the president hailed\u00a0this finding from Cato\u2019s report detailing Trump\u2019s legal immigration numbers, sharing the graph of falling legal asylum entries as proof his policies “were the best in the History of the U.S.A.”<\/p>\n

President Trump has praised\u00a0his own family\u2019s immigration stories, themselves a product of family connections, and has said\u00a0how “beautiful” it was that his own wife could immigrate legally. Yet his administration has not spared even close family members of<\/a> U.S. citizens who apply for immigrant visas.<\/p>\n

In December, the president signed an executive order\u00a0banning legal permanent immigration by 40 nationalities, and the State Department<\/a> extended\u00a0the immigrant visa ban to more than 90 nationalities. These policies are now blocking about half\u00a0of the prior immigrant visa flow, including half of all immigrant spouses and minor children of American citizens.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just family. Workers are also caught up in the escalating web of legal immigration bans. One single father who has two adult disabled children told PBS\u00a0that the immigration ban on Sierra Leone is blocking him from bringing back his in-home care provider for them. “The load on me is tremendous. It’s a struggle to be able to get enough sleep,” he said.<\/p>\n

These policies are not based on individualized risk assessments. Indeed, background checks of all legal immigrants are vastly superior to anything Trump\u2019s family members would have undergone decades ago. There are legal immigrant spouses of Americans\u00a0who have spent years getting vetted only now to be blocked.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the time burden. The government has also collected\u00a0nearly $1 billion in fees from legal immigrants and American sponsors blocked by its various policies.<\/p>\n

President Trump has long advocated for merit-based immigration reform<\/a>, but even the highest-skilled workers have faced insurmountable new barriers under this administration. In September, the president imposed\u00a0a new $100,000 fee just for the chance to apply for an H-1B high-skilled visa.<\/p>\n

As he signed the order, he said, “We need workers \u2014\u00a0we need workers, we need great workers, and this pretty much ensures that that’s what’s going to happen.” Yet the administration has said\u00a0the fee cut entries so much it has lost the government $20 million, while keeping out nearly 90 percent of new skilled workers\u00a0requesting visas from abroad.<\/p>\n

President Trump also campaigned on letting skilled foreign students come and stay in the United States. “It\u2019s so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT<\/a>, from the greatest schools, and lesser schools that are phenomenal schools also,” he said in 2024, adding: “You should be able to stay.”<\/p>\n

Even after he came into office, the president has recognized the importance of foreign students whose high-value tuition even helps subsidize U.S. students. In 2025, he said, “if we were to cut [student visas] in half, half the colleges in the United States would go out of business.”<\/p>\n

Odd, then, that the Trump administration cut\u00a0student visas by 40 percent last summer, largely by suspending visa issuances during the busiest weeks. That didn\u2019t bankrupt many colleges. Nonetheless, it has cost\u00a0US colleges $3 billion in revenue and forced many colleges\u00a0to cut back on programming<\/a> and other spending for students. Many colleges are hanging on, hoping next year reverses these cuts.<\/p>\n

When you add up all these cuts, you find that the administration has cut legal immigration twice as much as it has cut illegal immigration. That doesn\u2019t align with the president\u2019s stated goals. So what\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s overzealous subordinates deserve some of the blame. They tell him that these cuts are just zeroing out the problematic immigrants, not that they are slashing the total numbers and replacing them with no one.<\/p>\n

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When the president was signing the H-1B order, White House<\/a> Staff Secretary Will Scharf told\u00a0Trump the order will “ensure that companies have a pathway to hire truly extraordinary people.” That\u2019s quite different from telling him that it will cut visas for new skilled workers by 90 percent. Once again, Trump repeated that “we need people” as he finished signing.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s instinct is right. America needs people. U.S. population growth is down 90 percent. Social Security<\/a> is already short the millions of workers\u00a0it needs to keep revenues equal to expenses. The workforce will shrink without immigration. Fewer workers with more retirees will lead to higher prices.<\/p>\n

White House Advisor Stephen Miller tells\u00a0the president that immigrants are “the primary cause of the national debt<\/a>.” Some immigrants certainly can be a burden, but multiple organizations across the idealogical spectrum\u00a0agree that legal immigration overall is a massive win for the U.S. budget.<\/p>\n

No one suggests that America\u2019s legal immigration system was perfect. It would be wise to improve the process, restrict welfare access, and ensure that all legal immigrants are set up to contribute to the United States. But President Trump should follow his own advice: get the people we need. Focus on merit, improve the process, and make immigration great again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/trumps-immigration-crackdown-may-hitting-legal-workers-need <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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