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The Trump administration bragged about reductions in legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries in a post on social media on Tuesday, touting its discriminatory and white supremacist policies as it moves to increase immigration from white populations.

Sharing information from an analysis by libertarian think tank Cato Institute, the White House posted a graph showing that legal immigration and refugee admissions from majority-Muslim countries have been cut nearly entirely – by 96 percent – since December 2024 until February 2026.

The Trump administration has implemented sweeping travel and immigration bans against many countries with large Muslim populations. The State Department has slashed legal immigration by refusing most visas and all refugees from nearly every majority-Muslim country in the world, the Cato Institute’s analysis noted, while annual immigration levels from such nations are projected to reach their lowest point in 30 years.

These policies are openly Islamophobic, coming from a president whose first major action in office during his first term was to implement a “Muslim Ban” that was later overturned in court. This term, his administration has deepened its embrace of racism and Islamophobia both in policy and in rhetoric, with Trump repeatedly calling Somalis “garbage” and attempting to outright ban visa........

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