Trump Admin Announces Curbs On Green Card Applications — Laskiewicz

Ajouté : 2026-05-24

[00:00:05]The Trump administration has announced that foreign green card applicants will be forced to self-deport while their applications are processed. The dramatic change means that those looking to obtain lawful permanent residency, such as people on visas and work permits or through marriage, can no longer do so from inside the US. Around 1.2 million legal immigrants are thought to be affected by the shift. Only those about uh prove uh that have extraordinary circumstances uh will be uh exempt from the new system.

[00:00:43]Uh this was revealed uh in the memo from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that uh uh applicants uh would be required to go through consular processing outside of the United States.

[00:00:58]Now, joining me to discuss this is uh Arise analyst and of course author and international affairs analyst Dr. Mark Latkovic uh joining me from London.

[00:01:09]Thank you, doctor, for coming on Arise America.

[00:01:13]Thank you. Beautiful. Uh very quickly uh before we go to other things, let let's look at this last story on uh US uh residents seeking permanent residency or immigrants seeking permanent residency uh self-deporting this new policy by the US government. How does it affect majority of uh US residents or immigrants who are in the uh states for the American dream and who have been contributing immensely to the economic growth of the nation?

[00:01:50]For them, it is a disaster.

[00:01:53]To be honest, there's very little of the American dream left uh for such people.

[00:01:59]Self-deporting is not just expensive but disruptive. So, if they're running a business, that will be difficult.

[00:02:08]It's unpleasant. And to be honest, off-putting.

[00:02:11]And therefore, although it is obviously a policy designed to appeal to American electorate, for the people concerned, it's very bad news indeed.

[00:02:22]It is very bad news indeed. So, then we want to see how would the affected individuals then properly integrate from another country, from their from the their country of birth that they had left many years before now. If it was not so easy to integrate while in America, how easy would it be to then integrate from outside America?

[00:02:51]It is certainly more difficult.

[00:02:53]And of course, it's just one more reason why people may not want to go to become American citizens. It is of course a long time since America was openly free for everyone, but this sort of dream, as you put it, the American dream, of course, well-known American dream, exists to this day. We'll see what effect it will have on number of people applying. I imagine that many of the people who are illegally there may well not seek to apply because there's no easy way they can go back to the country, apply without in fact disrupting their life so much that it's not worth even bothering.

[00:03:35]Interesting. Oh, very quickly, we'll see how this pans out. I would have taken if not for the brevity of time. I would have wanted you to shed more light on the implications on the American economy. Very quickly, can you just mention that? I mean, I wanted you to actually hit on the implication on the American economy itself knowing full well that the nation has been built largely to to a large extent on forces and efforts of foreigners.

[00:04:09]Yes, America is unusual in that it was for centuries now the only place where people could easily emigrate to the only place where they might have an opportunity to build a business of their own or in fact even just to work well whereas in the local country they could not and this was therefore of immense importance to the such people and therefore to the economy. Who builds the economy? It's people.

[00:04:38]If you don't get the people hard driving entrepreneurial people wanting to come or prepared to take risks got nothing to lose such people were a very key element of the American economy for centuries and more or less now are being choked off by this and for by all the other actions of the American recent administration.

[00:05:00]Okay, earlier in the show I had a chat with Doug Brooks so then about the the US visit to India.

[00:05:11]Marco Rubio has been having talks with Narendra Modi in the past few hours.

[00:05:18]These talks have been bordering on tightening the economic relationship between the two countries the US and India. I want you to shed more light on expectations of this visit. Why now? Why after a visit to China? Why after Putin visited China as well? What is it about India this time?

[00:05:43]India is a much underrated a very big, important country.

[00:05:50]Here, America has shown its sense in talking to them because they're running a trade deficit with India and therefore, say, exporting American oil to India or something else would be very beneficial. And therefore, there's an economic aspect. Politically, India is an been a long-standing ally of Russia.

[00:06:12]It is non-aligned, but broadly speaking pro-Russian, although its system is American-style democracy. And therefore, from this point of view, America India is a potential prize that were America to put more effort into it, might be able to touch it from in from Russia.

[00:06:30]Moreover, India and China are competitors, not only for the American market, but also geopolitical competitors. And therefore, there's an opportunity for America here to increase its influence in that area.

[00:06:45]Therefore, it is a very important visit.

[00:06:47]There's also the problem that there may be dispute by breakout. A war may even go nuclear in theory with Pakistan. America's good relations with Pakistan, it is time for it to improve its relations with India.

[00:07:03]There is great deal of opportunity. It is a very good idea of this administration to go there now, especially after China, so to speak, strike the iron while it's hot. And therefore, it promises that it could be the start of a changing relationship economically and geopolitically.

[00:07:22]Interesting. So, you sound very upbeat, I must say, about this visit.

[00:07:27]Are you Does that then mean you're optimistic that this visit will indeed yield positive results?

[00:07:37]Yes, they may not be enormous, but I do expect there to be some movement.

[00:07:42]The relations with India are so neglected in comparison to what they could be. India has a great deal of potential. It is a after all one of the BRIC nations and therefore it is eventually there a potential prize in terms of economic trade and geopolitical influence, a counterweight to China.

[00:08:03]There's an awful lot of opportunity. The problem of course is it's not going to be easy. India has its own interests.

[00:08:09]India has its own way of going about things. However, for America, for this administration, the opportunity is there and it's to their credit that at least they're trying.

[00:08:18]Doctor Lachevitz, my last question to you, as optimistic as they are about the burgeoning relationship between US and India, what are the chances that eventually it would not then as it metamorphoses, it would not then become some form of rivalry between America and India as it has become between America and China?

[00:08:45]In other words, what is the guarantee that what eventually happened between the US and China will not still happen between America and India over time?

[00:09:00]Because actually India's geopolitical ambitions are quite limited and first of all there's not that much of a problem.

[00:09:07]There is no Taiwan to put it brutally in in Indian terms.

[00:09:13]There is also the fact that India remains for its citizens a very poor country. So although it is important and large, it is still a poor country for the many individuals.

[00:09:24]And therefore of primary interest for India is growth.

[00:09:28]It is not going to I think easy to become a geopolitical rival. What it does do is it it plows its own way.

[00:09:37]It basically has said it's non-aligned as the original non-aligned nation, the big one in the Cold War.

[00:09:43]And so therefore, it's not that India's going to suddenly come on board with America, especially with this pro-Russian views. However, it is by the same token unlikely to become a rival like China. Moreover, it has never shown the slightest desire to be a huge nuclear superpower which is going to take on America. Rather, their problems are Pakistan and China, and those are their primary problems. Moreover, are their local neighbors, of course, and that's what's on India's mind. So no, I don't think it's going to become a rival like China. It simply is a huge opportunity for the Americans.

[00:10:25]Thank you very much indeed, Dr. Marko Milivojevic, for being part of Arise America today. It's always such a delight to have you on the show.