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Trump's Deputies Shut Legalization and Amnesty Pathway for Millions of Economic Migrants
2026-05-23
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s deputies are closing the hidden process used by former presidents to covertly legalize or amnesty millions of economic migrants during the last few decades.

“This could be a HUGE move,” said a tweet from the Immigration Accountability Project Action group,

On Friday, officials announced that migrants in the United States who want to use the little-recognized and fast-track “Adjustment of Status” (AOS) pathway to green cards — and then citizenship — must instead follow the normal legalization pathway that goes through the U.S. embassies in their home countries.

This change will impact millions of economic migrants in the United States — including long-resident illegal migrants, temporary foreign workers, tourists, students, people with parole visas, Biden-era illegals with Temporary Protective Status, people who overstay their visas, and even people who have been given a final order of deportation. It does not impact refugees, asylum seekers, or migrants living overseas.

In recent years, roughly half of all legalized migrants have gotten their legal status — often with amnesty — via the AOS process instead of exiting the country to apply at the U.S. embassy in their home country.

“We’re returning to the original intent of the law to ensure aliens navigate our nation’s immigration system properly,” said Zach Kahler, a spokesman for Joseph Edlow’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, which is part of Markwayne Mullin’s Department of Homeland Security. Kahler added:
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