

Trump tightens work permits for migrants, expanding crackdown on legal immigration
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Work permits issued to immigrants who have applied for asylum or a range of other humanitarian programs will now be valid for 18 months rather than five years, under a new policy announced Thursday by the Trump administration. By forcing immigrants to renew their work permits more often, the government will have more opportunities to re-vet them, said Joe Edlow, director of U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency which handles most legal immigration applications. Edlow framed the change, which reverses a Biden-era policy, as the latest action by the administration to crack down on legal immigration in response to the shooting last week in Washington, D.C., of two National Guard members. Federal officials allege the shooting was carried out by an Afghan national.
“It’s clear that USCIS must enforce more frequent vetting of aliens," Edlow said in a statement. “All aliens must remember that working in the United States is a privilege, not a right." In the past week, Trump has called for a broad “reverse migration" of legal immigrants in the U.S., including from countries such as Afghanistan. A day after the shooting, Trump posted to his Truth Social platform that he planned to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries," and his administration is working on expanding the list of countries subject to a travel ban.
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