Trump suspends immigration from ‘Third World’, orders review of green cards

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Green paper applications from ‘countries of concern’ volition beryllium reviewed aft Afghan nationalist named arsenic fishy successful shooting of National Guard members.

Published On 28 Nov 2025

United States President Donald Trump said helium plans to suspend migration from “all Third World countries”, the time aft an Afghan nationalist was named arsenic a fishy successful the shooting of two members of the National Guard successful Washington, DC.

Trump’s announcement marks the latest successful a bid of escalating restrictions connected migration to the US, aft helium earlier ordered the US authorities to re-examine each greenish paper applications from 19 “countries of concern”, successful the aftermath of the Washington, DC, shooting.

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“I volition permanently intermission migration from each Third World Countries to let the US strategy to afloat recover, terminate each of the millions of Biden amerciable admissions,” Trump wrote successful a station connected his Truth Social level connected Thursday.

While helium did not specify the word “Third World,” the operation usually refers to processing countries successful the Global South.

Trump besides said that helium volition “remove anyone who is not a nett plus to the United States, oregon is incapable of loving our Country”.

He added that each national benefits and subsidies to “noncitizens” volition end, and helium volition “denaturalize migrants who undermine home tranquillity, and deport immoderate overseas nationalist who is simply a nationalist charge, information risk, oregon non-compatible with Western civilization”.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow said earlier connected Thursday that, “at the direction” of President Trump, helium had ordered “a full-scale, rigorous re-examination of each greenish paper for each alien from each state of concern”.

“The extortion of this state and of the American radical remains paramount, and the American radical volition not carnivore the outgo of the anterior administration’s reckless resettlement policies,” Edlow said.

Edlow did not elaborate connected which countries’ applicants would beryllium reviewed, but his bureau directed The Associated Press (AP) quality bureau to a June 4 statesmanlike proclamation restricting citizens of 19 countries from entering the US. The database includes Afghanistan, Haiti, Iran, Myanmar, Venezuela and Yemen.

Citizenship and Immigration Services had earlier announced that it would indefinitely suspend each Afghan migration requests “pending further reappraisal of information and vetting protocols”.

The restrictions connected immigrants successful the US travel arsenic Jeanine Pirro, US lawyer for the District of Columbia successful Washington, DC, identified the suspect successful the shooting of the National Guard members arsenic Rahmanaullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan nationalist who antecedently worked with US forces successful Afghanistan.

Lakanwal came to the US nether a programme known arsenic “Operation Allies Welcome” pursuing the US withdrawal from Afghanistan successful 2021, according to Pirro. She said national authorities, including the FBI, would beryllium reviewing his migration past and the vetting process.

The Trump medication has already taken assertive measures to restrict migration to the US. In October, it announced it would accept lone 7,500 refugees successful 2026 – the lowest fig since 1980.

The US authorities is besides successful the midst of a large reappraisal of caller US exile arrivals, according to a memo signed by Edlow and obtained by the AP connected Monday.

The memo orders the reappraisal of the astir 200,000 refugees admitted to the US nether the medication of President Joe Biden, according to the AP.

It besides suspends greenish paper applications from refugees who came to the US during that period.

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