by Frank Holmes, reporter
President Donald Trump has broken through Deep State resistance and begun fulfilling one of his key campaign promises—from 2016.
Not long after coming down the golden escalator to announce his underdog presidential candidacy, candidate Trump made a bombshell announcement: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the Hell is going on!”
As president, he banned immigration from potentially dangerous nations that happen to have majority Muslim populations, but a court struck down his national security policy, calling it an unconstitutional “Muslim ban.” Soon, the policy faded out.
A decade later, President Trump is back in office, and his America First policy to protect U.S. citizens from state sponsors of terrorism just came roaring back to life.
🚨 IT’S TIME TO BRING THIS BACK
2015 TRUMP: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a TOTAL AND COMPLETE shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!”
“You have no choice!”
Trump was right! pic.twitter.com/kR2C7do6jp
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 27, 2025
“I just met with the President. I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies,” said Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on Monday.
“America’s founders came to the country for the opportunity to breathe free, without interference from the king of England. But today, big welfare checks lure immigrants from hellholes who come only to “suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS,” wrote Noem. “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.”
Within one day, the policy went forward—and President Trump’s 10-year-old promise got fulfilled.
I just met with the President.
I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.
Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom—not for foreign…
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) December 1, 2025
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released a memo Tuesday announcing it would immediately suspend all immigration and naturalization processing for would-be immigrants from 19 high-risk, pro-terrorist countries.
Due to “a lack of screening, vetting,” it became “necessary” for the agency to conduct “a comprehensive re-review, potential interview, and re-interview of all aliens from high-risk countries of concern who entered the United States on or after January 20, 2021”—the day Joe Biden took office—the memo said.
The policy won huge praise from far-right conservatives in Congress.
“I think this is absolutely amazing,” Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., told The Matt Gaetz Show on Tuesday. “If their government from these countries cannot do vetting to ensure they are not sending criminals to our country, why should we have to do that and take them?”
Immigrants, legal or illegal, “are living off of us,” said Boebert. “We are paying for their health care. We are paying for their food. And it is time to stop.”
The president ramped up the policy after the shooting of two National Guards members by a “U.S. ally” from Afghanistan admitted to the United States under the Biden-Harris administration. It turns out the enemy of my enemy isn’t always my friend.
President Trump promised to “permanently pause” all immigration from dangerous countries—but he went a lot further. The president vowed he would return immigrants from nations that had threatened U.S. citizens as part of his policy of “reverse migration”…and polls show the American people are growing increasingly accepting of it.
More than one in three (35 percent) of Americans said legal immigration should be decreased, or even reduced to zero, in Economist/YouGov poll taken just before Thanksgiving.
On the other hand, 49 percent believed levels of legal immigration should remain unchanged or increased. Half of all liberal voters want more immigration, while a plurality of conservatives and moderates want fewer legal immigrants.
President Trump has sealed the border. Illegal immigration has fallen practically to zero. And the Border Patrol has not released a single illegal alien into the U.S. homeland over the last six months—as compared to at least 10 million under the Biden-Harris administration.
Things are going so well, “The United States is on track to see net negative migration,” according to DHS. “The foreign-born population has declined by 2.2 million this year, which includes the 1.6 million illegal aliens who have voluntarily self-deported and 555,000 deportations.”
And the president just revealed that things are about to get even tighter, as he introduces tougher measures on an incredibly unpopular immigration program.
President Trump and Secretary Noem have jumpstarted an agency that was hamstrung and barred from doing its job for the last four years.
For the first time in over five decades, The United States is on track to see NEGATIVE NET MIGRATION.
The foreign-born population has declined… pic.twitter.com/uW6vuNev64
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 13, 2025
On Wednesday, President Trump announced enhanced vetting of H-1B visa applicants to screen out anyone involved in “censorship”—by labeling political speech misinformation and disinformation, or by throttling or shadow-banning content on social media.
Fewer H-1B visas means less competition for American jobs.
“The best thing that you can say about the Trump economy is that American jobs are going to American workers for a change,” Vice President J.D. Vance told Breitbart News last month, “and that’s the thing that I’m proudest about with these numbers.”
The president’s plan not only enforced the rule of law and increased opportunities for U.S. citizens but destroyed the Democrats’ long-term political plan to rig elections by importing new liberal voters.
“The Democrat Party, via the Biden-Harris Terrorist Administration devised a scheme to import illegal aliens into the country by the millions — granting them ‘parole,’ which gives them work permits, which gives them Social Security numbers, which gives them access to the voting booth — and finally hooking them on welfare like Hunter Biden hooked on drugs,” said Trump adviser Stephen Miller, “all with the sole purpose of participating in U.S. elections and ultimately overthrowing the Constitutional Republic of the United States.”
“This is what happened. It’s true,” wrote Elon Musk.
And now, it’s all over, thanks to one man’s decade-long fight to put America first for a change.
This is what happened. It’s true. https://t.co/Rv0Jml7AjG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 1, 2025
“We have a secure border, because we have a true leader in the White House,” said Boebert.
Americans support President Trump’s policy announcement and are ready to see it go into action. But most of all, they appreciate President Donald Trump for keeping his campaign promise…even if it took 10 years.