Immediately after having assumed his duties on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump began to issue many decrees. Although they cannot have an immediate impact on corporate immigration, many of them claim changes in the landscape of corporate immigration. The following is an analysis of several of these decrees in this point of view:
- Protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public security threats. This decree largely reiterates Trump proclamation 9645, improving the capacities and verification processes and the attempted detection processes of attempting in the United States by terrorists or other public security threats, a decree executive of his previous mandate. He tastes various government agencies by examining all visa programs to prevent foreign nation states or other hostile actors to harm in the United States. This order will most likely lead to an increase in the examination of visa requests and an increase in processing deadlines at all levels for all corporate immigration. We can expect an increase in the number of visa requests subject to administrative processing. These effects can discourage immigration from businesses while commercial realities come up against the slowdowns of the system.
- America First Commercial Policy. This decree largely reiterates the executive decree of Trump 13788, Buy American and Hir American (Baha), from his previous mandate. The US trade representative has been responsible for examining the implementation of trade agreements to ensure that they promote national workers and manufacturers, in accordance with the principles of this previous decree. This can lead to a tightening of the labor market, as companies may be discouraged from hiring foreign national candidates available for positions. This could lead to immigrant brain driving, as highly qualified immigrants trained in American universities and institutions would potentially immigrate to countries like Canada. The USTR review can also affect the visa-based visas, such as TN, E-1, E-2 and H-1B1 visas. Trump also published America first political directive to the Secretary of State,, This can lead to an increased examination of employment -based visa requests, as Baha did under the previous duration of Trump.
- Guarantee the protection of states against the invasion. This categorical decree characterizes migration on the southern border as an “invasion” and imposes verification requirements for those who immigrate in the United States. The probable impact is to create improved medical and security requirements for immigrants entering the United States while this decree is written with the southern border of orientation, customs and border protection and the ministry of Internal security will probably impose additional restrictions on immigration from companies as well, potentially create travel disturbances due to incoherent experiences at the entrance points.
- Designating cartels and other organizations such as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists. The appointment of criminal organizations in the United States and Central America can presume an increased repression and verification of immigrants, including corporate immigrants, areas where these organizations operate. This could slow down the immigration of businesses through the southern border with Mexico.
- Protect the American people against the invasion. This decree expands accelerated withdrawal and revokes the programs of humanitarian parole created by the previous administration. People who have obtained status within the framework of these programs will not be able to renew the work permits. This can also lead to the return of “public accusations” policies, which previously led to a slowdown in corporate immigrants in search of status of legal permanent residence. In addition, increased examination and interior application can lead companies to give up immigrant hiring.
- Protect the meaning and value of American citizenship. This decree aims to reinterpret the guarantee of citizenship of the Constitution for people born in the territory of the United States and who are subject to the competence of the United States. In particular, this decree is trying to remove the granting of citizenship to certain children of corporate immigrants born in the United States. Prosecutions have been deposited contesting the impact of this decree. This action can lead to increased difficulties for businesses in recruitment and restraint of foreign workers.
Conclusion
Although these orders do not have an immediate impact on corporate immigration, they will probably lead to an increase in administrative costs for companies with foreign workers and will create challenges of retention for businesses. This can lead to immigrant brain driving, as highly qualified professionals, some of which have been trained and educated in the United States, potentially seek to leave the country.