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Here are the main ways Trump is undermining legal immigrants:
Refugees
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For 2026, the Trump administration set a cap of 7,500 refugees who may be admitted to the US, a significant reduction from the Biden administration cap of 100,000 in 2024. Trump wants the majority to be white South Africans.
An alarming new trend has also been the push to arrest and indefinitely detain refugees who have not yet received their green cards, with advocates estimating that 100,000 are at risk.
Temporary protected status (TPS)
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The Trump administration has revoked TPS for about 1 million people from a number of countries, placing many at risk of deportation. Those countries include:
- Afghanistan
- Cameroon
- Ethiopia
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Venezuela
- Yemen
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca)
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Ongoing litigation and the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant attacks have placed the already precarious status of Daca recipients under stress, and an increasing number of Dreamers have found themselves arrested and either deported or pressured to leave, although exact numbers are unclear.
Former homeland security secretary Kristi Noem wrote separate letters to Democratic members of Congress earlier this year, each with different data, showing that at least 260 Daca recipients were arrested last year and from 86 to 174 were deported.
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Asylum seekers
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The administration has also secured “third country” agreements with more than 20 nations to accept deportees who are not originally from that country. Some countries, such as South Sudan, Eswatini, Rwanda, Equatorial Guinea and Ghana, do not guarantee not to send the people back to the countries they fled. Some of these third-country removals are being challenged in court.
Pretermission
DHS has been increasingly relying on a legal action called “pretermission” to quickly remove asylum seekers from the US. If DHS requests “pretermission”, an immigration judge can then quickly order an asylum seeker removed to a third country without a proper hearing. In April of last year, immigration judges, who have historically struggled with a huge backlog of cases, were given wide powers to “pretermit” asylum cases, allowing the judges to quickly clear their dockets. In theory, asylum seekers removed via “pretermission” could seek asylum in the third countries where they are sent.
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Victims of crime
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But ICE now has a policy allowing for the arrest, detention and deportation of those with such U and T visas. The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law and other groups have sued the government to try to stop this.
People in humanitarian parole programs
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Early last year, USCIS paused various humanitarian parole programs, including the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole program, the Central American Minors parole program, the International Entrepreneur parole program and the Family Reunification parole program, placing recipients in limbo while their cases were re-vetted. Overall, targeting the humanitarian parole programs has stripped legal protections from more than 1.5 million people.
Student and work visa holders
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Meanwhile, the administration has also made it significantly more challenging for people applying for certain work visas, now charging a $100,000 fee for people seeking high-skilled H-1B work visas.
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