President Trump is once again doing what the D.C. swamp refuses to: putting the safety of Americans first. This week, his administration announced a temporary pause on a wave of green card applications, especially those tied to refugees and asylum seekers ushered in by Joe Biden’s anything-goes immigration policy. After years of open-door madness, Trump is restoring some badly needed sanity to the system.
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) confirmed that they’re freezing certain Adjustment of Status applications to ramp up national security screening. This isn’t just bureaucracy for bureaucracy’s sake—it’s a national security move aimed at protecting the country from the side effects of Biden’s soft-border disaster.
“To better identify fraud, public safety, or national security concerns, USCIS is placing a temporary pause on finalizing certain Adjustment of Status applications pending the completion of additional screening and vetting,” a USCIS spokesperson told Breitbart News. They also clarified that the action is “in alignment with Presidential Executive Order 14161, Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats, and the presidential action Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
Translation: if you came into the country under Biden’s wide-open “humanitarian” policies, don’t count on fast-tracking your green card anytime soon.
The freeze affects potentially hundreds of thousands of refugee applicants brought in during Biden’s presidency, many of whom entered under the controversial humanitarian parole program. That includes certain Afghan nationals and foreign asylum seekers now looking to lock down permanent residency. But under Trump, those fast-track days are over.
Let’s remember how we got here. Biden spent years inviting the world in with open arms and minimal checks, letting left-wing NGOs serve as the de facto gatekeepers of America’s immigration system. “Humanitarian parole” became the all-purpose excuse to bring in anyone, often with barely a background check. Now those same individuals want green cards, and Team Trump is saying: “Not until we’re sure you belong here.”
This crackdown isn’t just smart policy—it’s common sense. In a world increasingly plagued by terrorism, cartels, and foreign actors with zero interest in American values, allowing Biden’s hand-picked “refugees” to jump the line with minimal vetting is a direct threat to national safety.
Back in January, Trump signed an executive order suspending all refugee resettlement to the U.S., pointing to the uncontrolled and unsustainable flood of arrivals under Biden’s watch. That order, of course, was immediately challenged by Democrat-aligned NGOs and a federal judge in Seattle. But in a rare moment of clarity, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Trump’s authority, allowing the order to remain in effect.
The Left will howl that this is cruel, xenophobic, or unconstitutional—because they always do. But what Trump is doing is protecting the very idea of legal immigration. If America’s system is to mean anything, it must reward those who follow the rules and put the safety of American citizens above political correctness.
This pause on green cards is part of a broader effort to dismantle the dangerous precedents set by the Biden administration. It’s a direct message to the open-borders crowd: the games are over, the loopholes are closing, and national security is back on the agenda.
More importantly, it signals to the American people that their government isn’t going to hand out permanent residency like it’s a giveaway prize. The bar is going back up where it belongs—and under President Trump, it’s going to stay there.
In an age where political expediency and virtue signaling have replaced rational immigration enforcement, this move is a long-overdue course correction. America doesn’t owe the world an open door—but it does owe its own citizens a secure, lawful, and functional system. Trump gets that. And now, he’s making sure the rest of the government does too.
