According to the Department of Homeland Security, nearly two million people have left the country since Trump took office in January.Image: EPA POOL
Dec 4, 2025, 10:32 p.mDec 4, 2025, 10:32 p.m
The government of US President Donald Trump is further tightening its migration policy. In the future, asylum seekers in the USA will only receive a work permit for one and a half years. Before that it was five years. This was announced by the USCIS immigration authority. This will allow foreigners to be checked more frequently, a spokesman said.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the change will affect hundreds of thousands of people and will also have an impact on companies that rely on asylum seekers with work permits. One example is meat processing companies.
Two million have left the country or been deported
The Trump administration has made immigration policy one of its top issues. Since Trump took office in January, according to the Department of Homeland Security at the end of October, almost two million people have left the country – 530,000 people have been deported and 1.6 million have “deported themselves”. The government is aiming to increase the number of deportations to 600,000 by the end of the year. The White House posted the figure of two million on Wednesday and announced that the “mass deportations” would continue
In many – mostly democratically governed – cities, officers from the federal agency ICE are on the move to allegedly arrest criminal foreigners. As the Washington Post reports, 80 percent of the migrants arrested in the capital had no previous convictions. Trump declared a crime emergency in the capital on August 11th. “Our capital has been taken over by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals,” he claimed. Since then, ICE teams have arrested 1,100 people, according to the Washington Post. (sda/dpa)