Since the passage of the disastrous 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the United States has operated an immigration system that quite obviously champions globalist ideals of mobile labor and multiculturalism over the well-being of the American citizens whose descendants built the most powerful nation the world has ever seen.
The sheer scale of mass immigration has resulted in a foreign-born population that now exceeds 51.9 million people, according to the PEW Research Center.
Alongside the 24 million people who have become naturalized American citizens the administration states there are staggering 55 million active visa holders. Of these, 12 million are Green Card holders. 2.1 million have temporary lawful status. And another 6 million are illegals with some form of lawful protection such as an asylum claim (mostly granted by the Biden administration). The remainder are a smattering of students, people permitted to work, and those with tourist visas who are not present in the United States but still hold valid visas that would permit them entry to the country.
The State Department has announced that it will start continuous vetting of all 55 million visa holders and will not hesitate to revoke visas from immigrants who don’t meet the standards of good behavior and moral character the administration is setting. The left wing of the Democratic Party and the cheap labor libertarian wing of the right will doubtless decry any implementation of morality-based vetting as ‘un-American’ but the reality is that demands upon the moral character and good behavior of potential immigrants are as old as the country itself and deeply rooted in American tradition.
The Naturalization Act of 1790, passed three years after the Constitution was adopted in 1787, placed an explicit requirement of “good character” on any immigrant seeking to become an American citizen. The Naturalization Act of 1795 then reinforced and expanded this provision by demanding those seeking to gain American citizenship be of good character, have an attachment to the principles of the American constitution, and be “well disposed to the good order and happiness” of the country.
What the Trump Administration Must Do to Curtail LEGAL Immigration in 2025
By Mike Adams
What the State Department and USCIS are doing by reintroducing morality and behavior requirements is instituting a return to the very foundational concepts of America’s pre-1965 immigration tradition. Implementing a five-step vetting process that includes automated and manual checks of social media, law enforcement records, and immigration databases, the administration is signaling that no visa-holder is above scrutiny. This policy is a cornerstone of an America First agenda, ensuring that those granted the privilege of entering the United States adhere strictly to its laws and values.
Those seeking entry into the United States as well as those already holding visas (the more important group since they live among Americans) will be vetted for “any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of the United States.” Immigrants will also be continuously vetted to ensure they do not advocate on behalf of terrorist groups or threats to American national security.
To quote Matthew Tragesser of the US Citizenship and Immigration Service:
“America’s benefits should not be given to those who despise the country and promote anti-American ideologies.”
The State Department is already making good on its proclamations. The Trump administration has already revoked more than 6,000 student visas since coming into office; and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has ordered a ban on the hiring of foreign truck drivers as a result of a tragic accident in Florida that left three Americans dead at the hands of an immigrant truck driver from India.
Likewise, USCIS announced a raft of new policies. One announcement made just before the continuous vetting news is that USCIS will begin to actually enforce deportation proceedings against immigrants who lie and provide false information to American authorities when they seek to obtain a visa or change their current legal status (or lack thereof). This comes in the wake of a Chinese national who was able to purchase a Certificate of Naturalization from a corrupt former government employee and that national’s subsequent attempts to claim rightful citizenship. The administration is also pursuing the denaturalization of numerous criminals such as a Liberian man who is believed to have lied about his criminal history as a child predator when he obtained American citizenship. In another case an Indian man was charged and found guilty of a visa fraud conspiracy to provide immigrants with U Visas (visas to protect the victims of crime) by staging armed robberies.
The real question for any nationalist, patriotic, American is: how many deportations does this mean? Unfortunately, this question is not possible to answer due to the limited data on the ideological, criminal, and overstay proclivities of immigrants. The government needs to get significantly better at collecting this information. Still, the administration could significantly broaden the scope for revoking visas and enabling deportations if it adopted a wider range of policies.
Proposals to Expand Grounds for Revoking Visas (and citizenship):
In American law (Title 8, section 1182), those people suspected of future dependence on welfare programs are inadmissible to the country. For decades Republican and Democratic governments considered only a few rarely given federal cash assistance programs as making someone a public charge. Medicaid use, food stamp use, child-care benefit use, public housing programs (section 8) and other foundational welfare programs were, remarkably neglectfully, not considered to make someone a public charge. The Trump administration did change this in 2019 by considering anyone on these welfare programs for 12 months of a 36 month period to be a public charge. Forbes reported this change reduced legal immigration by 49% for the short time it was in effect (it was undone by the Biden administration).
This is unsurprising considering that, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, found that 53.5% of immigrant households are utilizing a welfare program. 37% are utilizing Medicaid, 36.3% are utilizing food stamps (SNAP) or other food programs, 5.2% are utilizing housing programs, and 6% of immigrant households are utilizing supplemental security income (money from the Social Security Administration). The American people should not be responsible for the maintenance of a massive foreign-born population.
Unfortunately, the new Trump administration has yet to re-implement this imperative rule.
Not only must the administration re-introduce this rule. They must expand it. There are 7.3 million households in the United States with two foreign-born spouses. With an average immigrant household containing 3.2 persons and 53.5% of immigrant households utilizing welfare programs it is extremely likely that there are 12.5 million immigrants taking from the American welfare state against the spirit and expectations of the American people. This figure is not even including single-person immigrant households, single-parent immigrant households, or households with one native-born American and one foreign-born person.
Non-citizen immigrants found to be primarily dependent upon the American welfare state must be subject to immediate deportation while the naturalization history of all 24 million immigrants who have gained American citizenship must be reviewed. Any naturalized immigrant found to have been utilizing welfare at the time of their naturalization should be investigated and ultimately denaturalized if they are not married to a native-born American citizen.
American citizenship and the right to live in this country is the greatest gift any Human could be graced with, and it is incumbent upon Americans to ensure its protection otherwise it will become valueless.