Three Key Takeaways:
- Donald Trump’s administration has unveiled new, tougher immigration vetting procedures, including deep background checks and social media screening, to reverse the Biden administration’s open border policies and enhance national security.
- The new approach targets the “humanitarian parole” programs that allowed over half a million migrants into the U.S. with minimal scrutiny, signaling a crackdown on unchecked immigration and security risks.
- Democrats, particularly those in the open borders lobby, have expressed outrage, calling the new measures discriminatory, while Trump’s team continues to prioritize national security and public safety with a more rigorous vetting process.
Donald Trump promised to secure the border during the campaign.
The President isn’t wasting any time making good on that pledge.
And Donald Trump just dropped this border bombshell that sent Democrats into a panic.
Trump administration unveils tough new immigration screening
The Trump administration is taking an axe to Joe Biden’s disastrous open borders agenda.
Department of Homeland Security officials announced a major overhaul of green card vetting procedures that Biden and Kamala Harris failed to enforce during their four years in office.
DHS will now dig through social media histories, run deep background checks, and put applicants through a gauntlet of security screenings that Biden’s team never bothered with.
According to the official DHS document published on March 5, the Department is implementing “uniform vetting standards and requires the collection of all information necessary for a rigorous vetting and screening of all grounds of inadmissibility or bases for the denial of immigration-related benefits.”
The document specifically states that “USCIS identified the need to collect social media identifiers (‘handles’) and associated social media platform names from applicants to enable and help inform identity verification, national security and public safety screening, and vetting, and related inspections.”
This approach follows Executive Order 14161, which mandates “enhanced screening and vetting standards and procedures enabling USCIS to assess an alien’s eligibility to receive an immigration-related benefit.”
Trump’s team zeroed in on Biden’s sketchy “humanitarian parole” programs that waved in over half a million illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Most of them barely faced any screening at all before being released into American communities.
Democrats cry foul as their open borders agenda gets dismantled
Last month, the administration suspended suspicious humanitarian parole applications from Latin America and Ukraine.
This latest announcement shows the administration is methodically dismantling every single one of Biden’s shortcuts that allowed potential security threats to enter the country unchecked.
The DHS document explains that the collection of social media information is “necessary for the enhanced identity verification, vetting and national security screening, and inspection conducted by USCIS and required under the E.O.”
The left-wing open borders lobby immediately erupted with outrage.
The National Immigrant Justice Center released a statement condemning the new security measures as “discriminatory” and “harmful to vulnerable populations.”
Apparently, protecting American citizens from potential threats is now considered controversial by the radical Left.
The America First approach is already working
The new policy gives these individuals 30 days to make a choice: leave voluntarily or face removal proceedings.
The DHS notice reveals the massive scale of this screening effort, stating it will affect over 3.5 million applicants across various immigration programs, including more than 900,000 citizenship applications (N-400), over 1 million green card applicants (I-485), and 203,379 asylum seekers (I-589).
According to the document, the collection is “necessary to comply with section 2 of the E.O. establishing enhanced screening and vetting standards and procedures” and is used to “help validate an applicant’s identity and determine whether such grant of a benefit poses a security or public-safety threat to the United States.”
This approach stands in stark contrast to the Biden-Harris administration, which allowed millions of unvetted migrants to pour across the southern border during their four years in office.
Trump promised to restore order to the immigration system during his campaign, and these enhanced security measures represent a significant step toward keeping that promise.
The President’s administration is delivering exactly what he promised – real action, real results, and real security while Democrats continue pushing their dangerous open borders agenda.
