Trump Slashes Muslim Immigration by 90+ Percent

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/09/30/trump-deputies-slash-muslim-immigration-by-over-90-percent/

Trump Deputies Slash Muslim Immigration by over 90 Percent

The cutbacks are a huge setback to the progressive policy of importing diverse migrants to help fragment the civic rules that ordinary Americans have created to manage their neighborhoods, schools, and society.

The policy shift also reduces the growth of antisemitic communities in U.S. society, said Noah Pollak, a Trump deputy in the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Education. “This is the single most consequential policy to combat antisemitism in the US in the last decade and it’s not even close,” he wrote on X.

In 2024, President Joe Biden’s deputies welcomed a monthly inflow of roughly 14,000 migrants from Muslim-majority nations such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Malaysia.

But that monthly inflow plummeted to roughly 1,000 in February 2026, partly because of Trump’s agency reforms, such as extensive security checks.

The monthly inflows are mostly set by Congress and include new legal migrants, chain-migration relatives, and the refugee inflow set by the White House.

The reductions come 25 years after Muslim migrants killed 3,000 Americans in the Twin Towers atrocity.

Progressive President Barack Obama (D), raised the Muslim inflow, and President Joe Biden (D) further accelerated the arrivals after the collapse of the Afghan government. The inflow was engineered by progressive deputies, such as Alejandro Mayorkas, with the aid of pro-migration laws passed in 1990 by Congress.

The size of the resident Muslim population in the U.S. is roughly 4 million, most of whom are concentrated in a few political jurisdictions, such as New York.

Obama downplayed the fundamental civic conflicts between Islam and Christianity.

This progressive eagerness to downplay the deep conflicts between Islam and American society reflects their ambitions and often-debunked claim that progressive policies can trump human nature.

For example, Americans govern their communities via their own civic rules that try to balance personal freedom and social order. The civic rules, or social norms, are shaped by citizens, parents, religious practices, school boards, town councils, and judges. The rules are mostly conservative because the costs of errors are often very high for individual Americans and their children.

But progressives want the power to rewrite Americans’ civic rules, which they often deem to be racist, xenophobic, and unfair to minorities. Democrats use migration to impose massive diversity that undermines the civic rules, so providing Democrats an excuse to impose their rules, such as legal rights for children who claim to be transgender.

Progressives also favor the Muslim inflow because Muslims mostly vote for Democrat candidates who welcome the migrants and protect them from popular pressure to assimilate into American society. That skew has tipped many elections to the Democrats, especially in Minnesota and New York City, because local Muslim leaders pressure legalized immigrant Muslims to vote in high numbers for Democrats.

In September 2025, for example, Obama explained the progressives’ political ambition to change America via migration:

“There’s never been an experiment [emphasis added] like this, where you have people from every corner of the globe show up in one place,” he said.

Obama’s progressive experiment has imposed massive pain on ordinary Americans — including on Jewish Americans who now see pro-Hamas activists on New York streets, under the partial protection of the city’s new Muslim mayor.

Orthodox Muslims, however, hate Americans’ way of life and so teach that Islam requires immigrant Muslims to self-segregate from Americans’ balanced culture of freedom and cooperation.