President Donald Trump holds up {a photograph} as he speaks to reporters after talking to troops through video from his Mar-a-Lago property on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, in Palm Seaside, 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. underneath Trump’s orders, one among 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 in the course of the Afghanistan Struggle is going through expenses 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 remedy this case,” Trump posted on his Fact Social platform. “Aside 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 menace 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 might be economically harmful as America’s foreign-born staff account for practically 31 million jobs, based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The president mentioned on Fact 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 underneath the load of the proof,” based on a assessment of educational literature final yr within the Annual Assessment of Criminology.
“With few exceptions, research carried out at each the combination and particular person ranges reveal that prime concentrations of immigrants should not related to elevated ranges of crime and delinquency throughout neighborhoods and cities in the USA,” it mentioned.
A research by economists initially launched in 2023 discovered immigrants are 60% much less more likely to be incarcerated than folks 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 submit, which the White Home, by itself speedy response social media account, referred to as “one of the crucial essential messages ever launched by President Trump.”
Trump claimed immigrants from Somalia are “utterly taking on the as soon as nice 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 yr, calling him “significantly 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 underneath the Biden administration.
On Thursday, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers, Joseph Edlow, mentioned the company would take further steps to display folks 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.
