Trump pauses immigration from 'Third World' countries: What that means

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : On Thursday, the Trump administration told journalists that it intends to re-examine all green cards held by people from the countries on the June 2025 travel ban list.
45% : Khalil was a permanent US resident at the time, but ICE accused him of omitting information on his green card application.
42% : Edlow's office told US media that the countries for which citizens with green cards will be reviewed would be those on the Trump administration's June travel ban list.
41% : Besides green card re-examinations and announcing travel bans on citizens of some specific countries, Trump also froze refugee admissions shortly after he resumed office in January.
39% : However, an August report by the Washington, DC-based American Immigration Council concluded that people from the 12 countries on Trump's June 2025 full travel ban list will "not be able to see family members living abroad".
36% : " Last year, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency detained pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil on the "basis of his speech" while he was protesting against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza at Columbia University.
34% : In June, to "protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other National security and public safety threats", the Trump administration announced that foreign nationals from 19 countries would face a full travel ban or partial restrictions.
29% : Then, at the end of October, the Trump administration announced the lowest refugee admission cap in the country's history, limiting entry to just 7,500 people for the fiscal year 2026.
27% : The memo cited Trump's January order on freezing refugee admissions due to national security as a reason.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.