What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/business/us-immigration-trump-1920s.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AFA.ArCd.gLSqE3wJ-SSH&smid=url-share

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration
The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come.
By Lydia DePillis and Campbell Robertson
Dec. 28, 2025 Updated 11:05 a.m. ET

Across the United States, someone is missing.

One year into President Trump’s immigration crackdown, construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters. Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas. A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis cannot field enough teams because immigrant children have stopped showing up.

America is closing its doors to the world, sealing the border, squeezing the legal avenues to entry and sending new arrivals and longtime residents to the exits.

Visa fees have been jacked up, refugee admissions are almost zero and international student admissions have dropped. The rollback of temporary legal statuses granted under the Biden administration has rendered hundreds of thousands more people newly vulnerable to removal at any time. The administration says it has already expelled more than 600,000 people.

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The anti-immigrant backlash - and Trump's return to power - could have been prevented.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Conservatives will be busy

Inventing reasons to hate other, other people. They’ll turn their hatred towards trump for not having non white people to harass and force out of the country. They’ll fear for the day that they might actually like someone. The horrors. It will all be Joe Bidens fault.

[hlthe2b]

2. Keeping immigrants out and imprisoning us within (unless you have the ability to make the case for dual citizenship

or lots and lots of $$$ to go/stay pretty much anywhere you want).

[Hugin]

5. Life is tough in a pariah nation...

As the MAGAts are about to find out dragging the rest of us with them. Buuut… They were warned.

[Solly Mack]

3. ...

[LuvLoogie]

4. If Columbus never made it and colonization of this hemisphere was delayed...

If a different country's expedition first arrived based on different motives. Maybe Scandinavians revisit before Spain. Or maybe Asians.

If it were the Japanese, would they have been any less brutal than the Spanish or the English? Would the exploitation of Africa and the Arab lands happened sooner?

[dem4decades]

6. On the bright side, being stupid and white is back in fashion.

For idiots.

[Stargleamer]

7. The NYT can be quite misleading. . .

From the article: "In 2024, they [Mexican-American voters] shifted toward Mr. Trump"

This seems to me to be misleading if not downright wrong: "Hispanic voters backed Harris over Trump by a 62% to 37% margin" : https://unidosus.org/press-releases/hispanic-voters-back-harris-over-trump-by-a-62-37-margin-cite-economic-concerns-as-top-priorities/

[WmChris]

8. Zero immigrants

That would mean there wouldn't be any white or black people here at all. The red man would be all there was.

[walkingman]

9. And no telling what we could have learned from them. Manifest Destiny....my ass.