Newsman: President Donald Trump said his administration’s pause on processing of all asylum applications has “no time limit, but it could be a long time.”
“We don’t want those people. We have enough problems,” Trump told reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday, Nov. 30. “Many of them are no good and they shouldn’t be in our country.”
When asked about who “those people” are, the president said “people from different countries that are not friendly to us and countries that are out of control themselves.” He again referred to “Third World Countries,” a term used to refer to poor and less developed nations.
“I don’t think they are all ‘Third World,’ but in many cases they are ‘Third World.’ They are not good countries. They are crime-ridden countries. They’re countries that don’t do a good job,” Trump said. “We frankly don’t need their people coming into our country telling us what to do.”
After the Nov. 26 attack, the Trump administration ordered widespread reviews of immigration policies, including a sweeping reexamination of green cards issued to people from 19 countries considered “high-risk.”
Trump had vowed to halt migration from all “Third World Countries” following an attack in Washington, DC, that left a member of the West Virginia National Guard dead and another critically injured. Trump also threatened to possibly denaturalize some U.S. citizens. “If I have the power to do it, I’m not sure that I do, but if I do I would denaturalize, absolutely,” he said.
The deadly shooting was allegedly carried out by a suspect identified as an Afghan national who entered the U.S. under a Biden-era refugee program in 2021 and was granted asylum in April of this year by the Trump administration.
