You wanted to slow down ALL immigration? This is how you do it.

Illegal crossings are down to virtually zero, and now the Trump admin is trying something new to ensure that legal immigrants are coming to the United States in order to contribute to the economy and not become welfare queens.

Here's the Free Beacon:

The pilot bond program, which will go into effect Tuesday morning in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, will initially apply to certain immigrants from the Dominican Republic and could expand to other nations in the future.
A State Department official confirmed to the Free Beacon that American consular offices in the Caribbean nation will begin requiring certain immigrants 'who have been found ineligible on public charge grounds to post a bond with [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] in order to be issued an immigrant visa.' The 'public charge' designation applies to those immigrants who were initially denied a visa over concerns they cannot financially support themselves and would rely on taxpayer-funded benefits.

The Trump admin is already denying visas to people who can't support themselves, so this six-figure bond would be part of the appeal process for potential migrants to prove that they're not in it to leech off of American taxpayers.

The consular offices are going to determine the bond on a case-by-case basis, but the range is being set at $100,000-$250,000.

Not a cheap ticket, by any means!

The State Department says these bonds will help 'protect American public benefits programs from the financial burden of foreigners who arrive with major medical expenses or other needs.'

Immigration has been a major drain on our tax dollars. The Free Beacon dove into some of that data.

This is all about LEGAL immigration 👇

Immigrants consumed around $401.6 billion in welfare and entitlement benefits in 2023, according to a recent study by the left-of-center Cato Institute think tank, which noted that American-born citizens tend to benefit more than their immigrant counterparts. Around $125.2 billion in funding was consumed by noncitizens, according to the report, and another $310.1 billion by naturalized immigrants.
The Center for Immigration Studies, meanwhile, relied on government data from 2024 to determine 'that 51 percent of households headed by legal immigrants use at least one major welfare program,' compared with 37 percent for U.S.-born households.

You are going to work so Somalians can get welfare!

The migrants who have been here for years don't stop taking benefits, either.

Of households headed by an immigrant in the United States for less than 10 years, 48 percent accessed one or more programs, the report said. Fifty-four percent of those in the United States for 10 years or more did the same.

And how much of that is fraud?

Of course, there is another option:

Our immigration system for decades has been set up to benefit foreigners at the expense of Americans.