The Department of Homeland Security is quick to declare success in the immigration real. Check out this release from yesterday:

"The Trump Administration has done what no modern president even attempted: end the border crisis, restore control of America’s immigration system, and put American workers back at the front of the line. Under President Donald J. Trump’s leadership, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has shattered decades of failed policy, securing the largest increase in immigration enforcement funding in U.S. history and driving the first decline in the foreign-born U.S. population in more than 50 years."   (bold added). Is the goal to reduce the size of the foreign-born population? I thought it was to reduce the undocumented population and remove the "worst of the worst."

The DHS press release goes on:

"Thanks to aggressive enforcement, streamlined deportation protocols, and the restoration of real border security, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have been deported and over 2 million more have self-deported rather than face certain removal. And this is only the beginning: the first wave of newly trained ICE agents is beginning to deploy, expanding the administration’s ability to sustain record-high enforcement levels into 2025 and beyond.  

As part of this broader effort to restore law and order, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has intensified scrutiny of America’s visa programs. Under the Trump administration, USCIS has restored robust screening and vetting capabilities, re-emphasized fraud detection and deterrence, and reduced exploitation of the immigration system through humanitarian and Temporary Protected Status programs . . . ."  (bold added).

The focus on visa programs undisputedly is a focus on legal immigration. There can be no doubt that the current administration seeks to reduce legal immigration as well as undocumented immigration.