NPR: More than 1.6 million noncitizens have lost their legal status in the first 11 months of President Trump's presidency
NPR reports on a sobering statistic demonstrating that the Trump administration is not only focused on undocumented immigration but is focused on reducing legal immigration. "More than 1.6 million immigrants have lost their legal status in the first 11 months of President Trump's presidency. The staggering number includes people who applied for and were accepted to come to the country on a wide variety of immigration parole, visa, asylum and temporary protected status programs. That number exceeds Philadelphia's entire population."
A recent example is Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recent announcement of a "pausing" of the diversity visa lottery program. "In a post on X, she said the man accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at Brown University — and of killing an MIT professor — came to the U.S. through the program in 2017 . . . ."
