On Thanksgiving Day, President Trump announced his intention to (among other things) “pause all migration from Third World Countries.” Today, Trump began to make good on that pledge:
The Trump administration formally halted immigration applications from 19 countries deemed to be a high risk for producing terrorists and other national security threats — hours after a source told The Post that list could grow to 30 nations or more.
In a four-page memo issued late Tuesday, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) directed a hold on green card and citizenship applications from those nations, as well as requests for benefits, “pending a comprehensive review.”
Requests for benefits? That could be highly significant, if it is serious. But who, exactly, is the “third world”?
The 19 countries affected by the order were previously singled out by President Trump for travel restrictions in a June 4 proclamation and include Afghanistan, Burma, Burundi, Chad, Cuba, the Republic of the Congo, Equitorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, and Yemen.
Fine. But more important is this:
USCIS also announced a hold on “all pending asylum applications, regardless of the alien’s country of nationality.”
That gets to the heart of the immigration crisis. Every person who lives in the Third World and wants to come to America, whether for opportunity or welfare, knows that if he or she is apprehended at the border, the word “asylum” is magic. Rather than being treated, properly, as an illegal alien, under the Biden regime everyone who uttered the word “asylum” would be admitted the the U.S., flown to a desirable destination, and given a date, probably years hence, for an asylum hearing. For which the illegal alien hardly ever showed up. And Democrats classified all of these “asylum seekers” as legal immigrants.
It was a scam that had devastating consequences for American communities. What we really need to do is amend our immigration laws to drastically narrow the “asylum seeker” loophole. Meanwhile, the administration’s order is an important step in the right direction.
UPDATE: I almost forgot:
To be fair, Minnesota is not entirely Third World. Not yet, anyway…
