President Donald Trump holds up {a photograph} as he speaks to reporters after chatting with 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 “permanently 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 had 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 Battle is dealing with prices 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.
“Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation,” Trump posted on his Reality Social platform. “Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!”
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 development websites and faculties have been targets. The prospect of extra deportations could possibly be economically harmful as America’s foreign-born employees account for almost 31 million jobs, in accordance with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The president mentioned on Reality Social that “most” foreign-born U.S. residents “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, 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 under the weight of the evidence,” in accordance with a assessment of educational literature final 12 months within the Annual Overview of Criminology.
“With few exceptions, studies conducted at both the aggregate and individual levels demonstrate that high concentrations of immigrants are not associated with increased levels of crime and delinquency across neighborhoods and cities in the United States,” it mentioned.
A examine by economists initially launched in 2023 discovered immigrants are 60% much less prone to be incarcerated than folks born within the U.S. Immigrants have been imprisoned at decrease charges for 150 years, the examine 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 “one of the most important messages ever released by President Trump.”
Trump claimed immigrants from Somalia are “completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota” as he used a dated slur for intellectually disabled folks to demean that state’s governor, Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee final 12 months, calling him “seriously retarded.”
Trump has ramped up his rhetoric for the reason that 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 Companies, Joseph Edlow, mentioned the company would take further steps to display folks from 19 “high-risk” international locations “to the maximum degree possible.”
Edlow did not title the international locations. However in June, the administration banned journey to the U.S. by residents of 12 international locations and restricted entry from seven others, citing nationwide safety issues.
