Trump Administration Perfects Legal Immigration By Ending Interviews Worldwide
The Trump administration unveiled its most efficient legal immigration system yet Tuesday, pausing immigrant visa interviews worldwide and removing the bureaucratic burden of deciding whether legal immigrants may legally immigrate. The State Department instructed embassies and consulates to clear appointments from their calendars while officers undergo “in-depth training” to identify applicants who might someday use public assistance, own a coupon or accept a complimentary mint. By indefinitely postponing face-to-face interviews, officials can now evaluate each applicant comprehensively without the reckless distraction of meeting them, reviewing their documents or allowing the process to conclude.
President Donald Trump praised the reform as a historic reduction in wait times. “We had people waiting years for visas, very unfair, and now they’re not waiting for interviews because there are no interviews,” Trump said. “That’s zero minutes, mathematically perfect, and probably the fastest legal immigration system ever created anywhere in the world.” The worldwide pause followed an Aug. 21 ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas striking down an earlier suspension affecting applicants from 75 countries. Administration lawyers promptly determined that a court order barring selective obstruction could be honored through universal obstruction, placing every nation on the same level beneath the locked door.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s department has consequently achieved the civil rights milestone of equal exclusion: no favoritism, no nationality-based discrimination and no danger of immigrants arriving through the legal channels Republicans have spent years demanding they use. Applicants who paid thousands of dollars for medical exams, paperwork and travel to scheduled interviews will be assigned new dates eventually, preserving their financial independence by ensuring they have no money left with which to seek public benefits. The White House described the pause as temporary, meaning it will remain in place until officers complete their training, courts intervene again or legal immigration becomes less offensive to the officials administering it. The United States has therefore solved legal immigration: everyone may apply, and no one may finish.
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