He has effectively ended the refugee program, slashing permanent legal immigration by about 10 percent. As I reported, he has now also banned legal immigration for about 20 percent of legal immigrants. Cancellation of legal statuses: The most important immigration story in 2025 was the mass cancellation of lawful status for the roughly 2.5 million immigrants with humanitarian parole and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The number of ICE arrests of people without charges or convictions has increased by 1,200 percent since the start of the year. DHS agents are routinely trespassing on private property to make immigration arrests, and DHS is leading the charge for the most extreme attack on the First Amendment this century.