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Trump’s Insane Green Card Policy Doesn’t Have to Be Legal to Work (w/ Doug Rand)

2026-05-24 News & Politics
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Catherine Rampell welcomes former DHS official Doug Rand to take on Trump’s purposely chaotic new green card policy, why legal immigrants and Silicon Valley are panicking, and how the administration may be using confusion and fear to push people out of the country. Listen to Doug Rand's podcast, 'The Melting Pod' — https://meltingpod.org/ Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

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@PamOrl 2026-05-25

“This administration’s tried and true strategy is to persecute the few to terrify the many.” —- Doug Rand This applies to so many departments/decisions of this admin.

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@AnnvanderWoude 2026-05-25

Next step? De-naturalise? Why would anyone want to enter USA given the huge stay out signs.

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@KotchaparnWongkor 2026-05-25

It's a trick for one way ticket . There are 75 countries has Indefinite Immigrant Visa Freeze put in place. Once you leave, you will not be able to come back because they are not permanent residence yet. I can't imagine what economy and society would look like if American population down 100 Million people according to Steven Miller.

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@jimmurphy7296 2026-05-25

They’ll just tell all the consular officers to deny everything,

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@lhoward9593 2026-05-26

They want to send immigrants to their home country and then they plan to shut the door, preventing their return.

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@Eldot5 2026-05-28

When the lawyers are resorting to blatantly emotional arguments, yeah….you know this is hurting them and their avenues to make money.

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@AnyaMalkiel 2026-05-25

So they want to get bribes from companies for their applicants to be able to apply from the US. All roads lead to corruption

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@mk90075 2026-05-26

Also the USCIS has put a hold on applications from citizens of 39 countries since December. It’s been over 6months. Legal immigrants from these 39 countries, including doctors and researchers, are losing their jobs because their work authorization requests have been put on hold for over 6months now. This is disgustingly discriminatory!

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@free_br 2026-05-25

Thanks for bringing it out as is. Financial scam too, they took a hundreds of thousands if not million as social security from me, and now they don't want me here, so just return my share that I could have put in my own retirement funds ‼️‼️ false promises at government level ❓💯

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@josewebster3563 2026-05-28

This is such a huge deal for employment based permanent residence applications. Please remember that these people are already working under a temporary LEGAL status. I went through this process 20 years ago. I am a U.S. Citizen now. So I know what this means. If an immigrant is working in the U.S., they would probably loose their job!

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