{"id":21461,"date":"2026-02-12T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21461"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:50:17","slug":"4-ways-trump-is-reshaping-the-u-s-immigration-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21461","title":{"rendered":"4 Ways Trump Is Reshaping the U.S. Immigration Bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;USCIS currently has 11.3 million pending\u2028applications, &#8220;the largest immigration backlog in its history,&#8221; reported&nbsp;<em>Newsweek<\/em>&nbsp;in November. While officials say green card and visa processing are getting faster, &#8220;agency data from January through March shows that processing times for several key immigration forms have continued to rise, leaving applicants waiting months or even years longer than expected.&#8221; The &#8220;closure of consulates abroad&#8221; and &#8220;planned firing of State Department staff,&#8221; the MPI noted in April, were also &#8220;expected to lengthen visa wait times.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/02\/03\/trumps-bureaucratic-war-on-immigrants\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/02\/03\/trumps-bureaucratic-war-on-immigrants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;USCIS currently has 11.3 million pending\u2028applications, &#8220;the largest immigration backlog in its history,&#8221; reported Newsweek in November. While officials say green card and visa processing are getting faster, &#8220;agency data from January through March shows that processing times for several key immigration forms have continued to rise, leaving applicants waiting months or even years longer than expected.&#8221; The &#8220;closure of consulates abroad&#8221; and &#8220;planned firing of State Department staff,&#8221; the MPI noted in April, were also &#8220;expected to lengthen visa wait times.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/02\/03\/trumps-bureaucratic-war-on-immigrants\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[617,221,493,25,170],"class_list":["post-21461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bureaucracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21462,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21461\/revisions\/21462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}