President Trump is delivering on his promise to secure America's borders and protect American workers with new proposed regulations that would dramatically tighten work permit eligibility for illegal immigrants claiming asylum.
The move represents a complete reversal of the disastrous Biden-era policies that essentially created a conveyor belt of cheap foreign labor, allowing millions of border jumpers to flood American job markets while their bogus asylum claims sat in bureaucratic limbo for years.
Under the previous administration's reckless open-border agenda, illegals could waltz across the Rio Grande, mumble the magic words "credible fear," and within months be handed work authorization that competed directly with hard-working Americans for jobs. It was nothing short of economic warfare against the American middle class.
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The Trump administration's proposed rule change would require asylum seekers to actually prove their cases have merit before being granted the privilege of working in America. What a revolutionary concept - making people follow the law!
"We're not going to allow America to be treated like the world's welfare office anymore," a senior administration official told reporters. "American jobs should go to American workers first, period."
This crackdown comes as Trump continues dismantling the catastrophic legacy of the Biden regime, which saw over 10 million illegals pour across our southern border in just four years. Many of these economic migrants learned to game the asylum system, knowing they could work legally for years while their fraudulent claims wound through the courts.
The proposed changes would restore sanity to a system that was completely weaponized against the American worker under Biden's radical open-border policies.
Democrats and their corporate donor allies are predictably howling about the proposed changes, desperate to maintain their pipeline of cheap, exploitable labor. But for millions of Americans who saw their wages stagnate and job opportunities disappear under the previous administration's anti-American policies, this represents real hope for economic recovery.
With Republicans controlling Congress and Trump back in the White House, this is exactly the kind of America First policy that voters demanded when they delivered Trump his decisive 2024 victory. The question isn't whether these changes are needed - it's why it took so long to fix Biden's mess.