United States President Donald Trump has announced a plan to permanently halt migration from countries he labels as "Third World," directly impacting nations such as Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Chad, and Ghana. In a Thanksgiving message, Trump criticized decades of immigration policies, claiming they have weakened the U.S. socially and economically. He stated that the U.S. foreign-born population has grown to about 53 million, with many migrants coming from what he described as failed countries, sometimes linked to prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.
Trump asserted that migrants with green cards receive disproportionately more in public benefits than they contribute, giving an example where a migrant earning $30,000 annually would receive roughly $50,000 in benefits for their family. He connected immigration to rising crime rates, strained public services, and urban decay, citing the example of Somali refugees in Minnesota transforming the state’s safety landscape.
To address these issues, Trump outlined a series of intended actions: shutting down migration from developing nations, ending federal benefits for non-citizens, canceling what he termed "Biden illegal admissions," deporting individuals deemed burdensome or security threats, and even revoking citizenship from migrants he sees as undermining domestic stability.
His remarks followed an incident where two National Guard members were shot in Washington, D.C., by a suspect who entered the U.S. in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome and later received asylum. This policy signals a sharp intensification of Trump’s immigration stance aimed at halting what he portrays as disruptive migration flows.