1.6M fewer US immigrants expected this year amid Trump policies. Thoughts?

[Cubus]

The Congressional Budget Office now predicts that total net immigration will be 1.6 million people smaller this year than it projected in January. Contributing to that downward trend, the Republican tax and spending package Trump signed into law in January is estimated to result in the removal of 290,000 immigrants and the voluntary exit of 30,000 others over the next five years.

Source: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/10/congress/1-6m-fewer-us-immigrants-expected-this-year-amid-trump-gop-policies-cbo-predicts-00555740

[Hardon-Collider]

The headline's cause-and-effect is nonsense. It's not a policy outcome; it's a demographic reality. For the past decade, the US has been adding over 10 million new residents every seven or eight years. That's an incredible rate of change. Of course, that can't continue forever. At some point, the national character, the culture, the social fabric has to reach a breaking point. It can't absorb that much new material. This slowdown isn't because of a tax bill; it's the inevitable result of the massive wave of immigration from the past decade finally running up against the limits of what the existing culture can sustain. It's not a policy mistake, it's a natural process of assimilation reaching a threshold.

[exitseven]

Trump is doing what we elected him to do.

[dustybiker2]

@exitseven And so much more.

[exitseven]

@dustybiker2 Yes indeed. Winning Winning Winning

[dustybiker2]

Destroy destroy terrorize.

[exitseven]

@dustybiker2 Defund, Deregulate , and deport, deport , deport.

[dustybiker2]

People get shot, blame the wrong side, go golf on tax payer dollars

[OlderAndWiser]

And Biden claimed there was no problem!

[DrPepper12]

Those MAGA farms & rural medical facilities are FUCKED with cascading effects through the whole MAGA sphere

[kavakava]

Great news for the dumbass immigrants that filed legally for immigration. Maybe now they have a shot at the brass ring.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Fantastic.