> he had the power to fix the immigration issues forever but chose not to. wrong. he built 458 miles of wall, closed the borders, and found a number of ways to limit immigration without needing congress' approval.   rticle/invisible-wall/ > and it doesnt matter. in the two years and 308 days that donald trump has been president, his administration has constructed far more effective barriers to immigration. no new laws have actually been passed. this transformation has mostly come about through subtle administrative shiftsa phrase that vanishes from an internal manual, a form that gets longer, an unannounced revision to a website, a memo, a footnote in a memo. among immigration lawyers, the cumulative effect of these procedural changes is known as the invisible wall. > in the two years after trump took office, denials for h1bs, the most common form of visa for skilled workers, more than doubled. in the same period, wait times for citizenship also doubled, while average processing times for all kinds of visas jumped by 46 percent, even as the quantity of applications went down. in 2018, the united states added just 200,000 immigrants to the population, a startling 70 percent less than the year before.
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