In his primetime address to the country on Jan 8, President Trump said, “America proudly welcomes millions of lawful immigrants who enrich our society and contribute to our nation…”
In fact, his administration has made life much harder even for legal migrants. Here are the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s own data about how long it is taking to process various immigration-related requests. Most forms of request that confer permanent immigration status (e.g., Petition to Remove the Conditions on Residence; Removal of lawful permanent resident conditions (spouses of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents)) are taking more than twice as long as they did under the Obama administration.
https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt
Bear in mind that these are folks who have already been permanent residence status, are married to a U.S. national, and have lived in the U.S. for two years after the original status was conferred.
Not so welcoming.
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