President Donald Trump holds up {a photograph} as he speaks to reporters after talking to troops by way of video from his Mar-a-Lago property on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, in Palm Seashore, Fla.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump vowed on Thanksgiving to “completely pause migration” from poorer nations in a blistering late-night, anti-immigrant screed posted to social media.
The prolonged rant got here within the wake of the Wednesday capturing of two Nationwide Guard members who have been deployed to patrol Washington, D.C. below Trump’s orders, one in all whom died shortly earlier than the president spoke to U.S. troops by video on Thursday night.
A 29-year-old Afghan nationwide who labored with the CIA through the Afghanistan Conflict is dealing with fees for the capturing. The suspect emigrated as a part of a program to resettle those that has helped American troops after U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“Solely REVERSE MIGRATION can totally treatment this case,” Trump posted on his Reality Social platform. “Apart from that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, besides people who hate, steal, homicide, and destroy all the things that America stands for — You will not be right here for lengthy!”
Trump’s risk to cease immigration could be a severe blow to a nation that has lengthy outlined itself as welcoming immigrants.
Elected on a promise to crack down on unlawful migration, Trump’s raids and deportations have disrupted communities throughout the U.S. as building websites and faculties have been targets. The prospect of extra deportations may very well be economically harmful as America’s foreign-born staff account for almost 31 million jobs, in accordance with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The president stated on Reality Social that “most” foreign-born U.S. residents “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, psychological establishments, gangs, or drug cartels” as he blamed them for crime throughout the nation that’s predominantly dedicated by U.S. residents.
The notion that immigration breeds crime “continues to falter below the load of the proof,” in accordance with a evaluate of educational literature final 12 months within the Annual Assessment of Criminology.
“With few exceptions, research carried out at each the combination and particular person ranges show that prime concentrations of immigrants are usually not related to elevated ranges of crime and delinquency throughout neighborhoods and cities in america,” it stated.
A research by economists initially launched in 2023 discovered immigrants are 60% much less prone to be incarcerated than individuals born within the U.S. Immigrants have been imprisoned at decrease charges for 150 years, the research discovered, including to previous analysis undermining Trump’s claims.
However Trump appeared to have little curiosity in a coverage debate in his unusually prolonged social media put up, which the White Home, by itself fast response social media account, referred to as “probably the most necessary messages ever launched by President Trump.”
Trump claimed immigrants from Somalia are “utterly taking up the as soon as nice State of Minnesota” as he used a dated slur for intellectually disabled individuals to demean that state’s governor, Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee final 12 months, calling him “critically retarded.”
Trump has ramped up his rhetoric because the capturing. On Wednesday night time, Trump referred to as for the reinvestigation of all Afghan refugees who had entered below the Biden administration.
On Thursday, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers, Joseph Edlow, stated the company would take extra steps to display individuals from 19 “high-risk” nations “to the utmost diploma attainable.”
Edlow did not identify the nations. However in June, the administration banned journey to the U.S. by residents of 12 nations and restricted entry from seven others, citing nationwide safety considerations.
