New York Times: Trump Administration Is Said to Plan To Cut Refugee Admissions To Record Low

Good news.

“NS” activists spent the entire 2024 election cycle arguing with me on X that Trump wouldn’t change our immigration policy. They repeatedly said on their shows and podcasts that illegal immigration would increase, refugee resettlement would continue and we would get “infinity Indians.” They said for months there would be a war with Iran. Lately, they have been saying there will be a three front war with Iran, Venezuela and Russia, which will be followed by the “collapse” of the United States.

New York Times:

“The Trump administration plans to slash refugee admissions to a record low level in the upcoming year, reserving a bulk of the limited slots for white Afrikaners from South Africa and others facing “unjust discrimination,” according to people familiar with the matter and documents obtained by The New York Times.

President Trump is expected to lower the ceiling on refugee admissions to 7,500, a drastic decrease from the cap of 125,000 set by the Biden administration last year, according to a presidential determination dated Sept. 30 and signed by Mr. Trump.

The new limit would effectively shut the door to thousands of families waiting in camps around the world and refocus a program meant to provide sanctuary for those fleeing war and famine to support mostly white South Africans. …”

New York Times:

“Sai Jagruthi, a 17-year-old engineering student at a giant technical university in the south Indian city of Hyderabad, remembers exactly where she was when she heard the news.

She had just finished a dinner of okra and rice in the student cafeteria, she said, when her father called to tell her about a proclamation President Trump had made from the White House on Sept. 19. Every H-1B visa, a work permit that has brought millions of Indians to the United States since the 1990s, would now come with a $100,000 fee. “My dreams were shattered,” she said.

She recalled her father saying, “‘It was the best option, and we are going to lose it.’” For Ms. Jagruthi, excelling at her studies was a family affair. Her father, a widower who works at a bank, “wants a better life for their daughters than his own. Going to the U.S. was a ticket to that,” she said.

The new rules threaten to stop up a pipeline for a fast-growing class of young dreamers. Indians with middle-class backgrounds, especially in the country’s relatively prosperous south, have invested deeply in technical education as a way to get ahead — a way that often went through the United States. …”

New York Times:

“Before last fall’s presidential election, Kevin Lynn had spent seven mostly fruitless years trying to stop American companies from relying heavily on foreign workers to do white-collar jobs.

The advocacy group Mr. Lynn leads, now called the Institute for Sound Public Policy, occasionally made a splash. An ad campaign in San Francisco public transit stations and trains ginned up some media attention, much of it disapproving, and he goaded President Trump into stopping the Tennessee Valley Authority from outsourcing about 200 technology jobs. But mostly it was crickets. Even a first-term push by Mr. Trump didn’t have much impact.

Then, suddenly, the issue burst into public view, culminating in Mr. Trump’s decision last month to charge employers a $100,000 fee for each H-1B visa used to hire a skilled worker from abroad.

“Our voices are being heard,” Mr. Lynn said in an interview. “Some are really resonating now.” …”

To recap:

• Illegal immigration has crashed to record lows
• The Trump Wall which was promised in the first term was funded
• Refugee resettlement is being cut to record lows
• White South Africans are being prioritized
• ICE is being beefed up into a huge new entity which is carrying out raids in the interior
• Interior deportations continue to rise. Deportation numbers now reflect interior removals instead of border crossings
• We are not at “war with Iran”
• The H-1B program was crippled by Trump’s new $100K fee
• Antifa was designated a domestic terrorist organization

Nothing Good Ever Happens Gang was wrong about immigration and lots of other things. The idea that this is “no different” than what would have happened under a Kamala Harris presidency is absurd.