President Donald Trump waves while boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on November 30, 2025, on his way back to Washington, DC. | Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Late on Thanksgiving Day, a holiday whose central fable is about the American value of welcoming strangers in need, President Donald Trump announced an intent to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover.” It is not clear exactly how exactly this sweeping policy is supposed to work in practice — or if, as is often the case, the president’s posts...

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