Trump vows to stop immigration from poorer countries after fatal National Guard shooting - PBS NewsHour

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Nov 28, 2025
President Trump said Friday he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting of two National Guard members. David Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, joins Liz Landers for more on the president's call for immigration reforms.

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Here is David J. Bier's profile on the Cato Institute. In this interview, he made many good points refuting a lot of the Trump/Miller garbage, for instance:

...taking away someone who has illegal permanent residence, their status, is quite difficult. You have to prove your case against them. You have to bring that before an immigration judge and layout exactly what immigration law they violated.

And what he's talking about here, net asset, all this stuff, there is some ambiguity in the law, but there's not that much ambiguity, and it will be difficult for him to actually follow through on that promise and effectively deport most of the legal immigrants in the United States.

And furthermore, Trump's policies may not actually be about going after the worst of the worst like the rhetoric talks about:

So, across all the different categories of immigration that we have, he's looking to restrict. This is the first time he's said an outright ban. And when you think about who gets most legal immigrant visas to come to the United States, it is spouses of U.S. citizens.

That's going to be the number one category that's targeted by a broad-based absolute ban on legal immigration to the United States. And that's really cutting at the heart of family values and a lot of the other things that conservatives like to talk about.

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1. Pourer means darker to him.