One year into Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown,
construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters.
Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas.
A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis cannot field enough teams because immigrant children have stopped showing up.
America is closing its doors to the world,
sealing the border,
squeezing the legal avenues to entry
and sending new arrivals and longtime residents to the exits.
Visa fees have been jacked up,
refugee admissions are almost zero
and international student admissions have dropped.
The rollback of temporary legal statuses that were granted under the Biden administration has rendered hundreds of thousands more people newly vulnerable to removal at any time.
The administration says it has already expelled more than 600,000 people.
Shrinking the foreign-born population won’t happen overnight.
Oxford Economics estimates that net immigration is running at about 450,000 people a year under current policies.
That is well below the two million to three million a year who came in under the Biden administration.
The share of the country’s population that is foreign born hit 14.8 percent in 2024,
a high not seen since 1890.
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