The deeper one digs into America's years of importation of migrants from all over the world — pre-Trump administration, that is — the easier and more troubling it becomes to see that the plight extends far beyond former President Joe Biden's intentionally-created illegal alien crisis on America's southern border.
Let's be honest.
For years, the political class treated the United States as a virtual dumping ground for the world’s most corrupt regimes, quietly shipping their nationals to American neighborhoods under the guise of "refugee resettlement” and “humanitarian visas.” Why? In part, because the Democrat Party has long viewed migrants as its future voters.
Now, a new Center for Immigration Studies report lays it out in black and white:
Washington was issuing tens of thousands of visas to people coming from countries that Transparency International ranks at the absolute bottom of the global corruption index. Can you say "South Sudan," "Somalia," and names of other bottom-dwelling countries that for decades have ranked as the most corrupt and "underdeveloped" countries on the planet?
Incidentally, the politically correct term for such hellholes is now "developing countries," rather than underdeveloped countries. Um, pro tip: if your country hasn't developed by now, chances are pretty good that it's never going to be.
Under the headline "It Is Impossible to Fully Vet Immigrants When a Culture of Corruption Exists," the study reads in part:
Speaking in Mount Pocono, Pa., on December 9, 2025, President Trump said:
"I've also announced a permanent pause on Third World migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries. … Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden — just a few — let us have a few from Denmark."
One of the president’s first acts in office was to sign Executive Order (EO) 14161, “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats”. That EO was followed by two presidential proclamations that implemented key portions of it — Proclamation 10949 and Proclamation 10998. (The EO and proclamations are summarized in a White House Fact Sheet issued on December 16, 2025.)
Collectively the EO and proclamations target countries where cultures of corruption reign and where reliable vetting is not possible.
The Center for Immigration Studies’ Ronald Mortensen, a retired career U.S. Foreign Service Officer, wrote that vetting nationals in such corrupt countries is nearly impossible for U.S. officials:
In these countries, there can be no assurance that the documents available to vet individuals applying for admittance into the United States are valid or accurate, due to a combination of incompetence, poor or no recordkeeping, fraud, bribery, and personal dishonesty.
For the payment of a bribe, a citizen of these countries, and in some cases even a non-citizen, can obtain the official documents necessary to apply for entry into the United States — a fake birth certificate, doctored law enforcement records, a phony diploma, a forged passport, fictitious bank statements, and all other documents normally used by U.S. officials to vet individuals before they are allowed to enter the United States.
There's that word, again: vetting.
While the Biden administration largely turned a blind eye to any semblance of proper vetting of illegals streaming across the Southern Border, the new report reveals that in a broader, global perspective, the vetting problem goes far deeper than even Biden and Democrats could have dreamed.
How convenient for the Party.
Given that the widespread fraud runs deep in problem countries (irrespective of the Democrats' nefarious efforts in the U.S.), it's been a win-win for those who wish to import a sufficient number of migrants to permanently alter — or destroy — the very fabric of America in which we grew up.
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Other countries in the troubling report include Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Cuba, Angola, and Zambia.
As for the Trump administration's aggressive effort to round up and deport "the worst of the worst," Mortensen wrote:
[Trump] was left with no option other than to suspend entry from highly corrupt countries in order to prevent the further importation of cultures of corruption, since effective vetting is not possible.
By halting visas from these failed and beyond-corrupt states, Trump didn’t just secure the border; he restored a measure of sanity to an immigration system run for too long on autopilot. But make no mistake: there's still work to be done.
Meanwhile, from bitter left-wing women in Minneapolis to dangerous immigrants across America, the Left remains permanently afflicted with late-stage Trump Derangement Syndrome to the point that they will ignorantly oppose the removal of people who have zero business in this country — even if to their own detriment.
