See How Muslim-Majority Immigration Has Plunged Under Trump
Sixteen thousand seven hundred a month. Then 800. The Cato chart did the math.
Summary
- The Daily Wire reports a Cato Institute tracking chart shows combined refugee and immigrant visa issuances from majority-Muslim nations falling from roughly 16,700 a month in January 2024 to about 800 in February 2026, a 96 percent drop from the 2024 baseline.
- Monthly issuances had hovered between 14,000 and 23,000 through 2024. The White House Rapid Response account posted the chart on Sept. 29.
- The paper credits the crash to a halt of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program plus expanded travel proclamations in June 2025 and December 2025, and a January 2026 State Department pause on immigrant visas for a long list of high-risk countries.
- Trump's Jan. 20, 2025 Executive Order 14161 ordered visa officers to block aliens who intend terror, threaten national security, or exploit immigration law. The January 2026 directive also required immigrants to be financially self-sufficient.
Commentary
A Detroit line dad still counts lunch-box dollars on cracked linoleum and knows 16,700 monthly stamps used to mean a pipeline, not a security review. He did not pay the levy so a government that cannot verify its own citizens could keep sending names.
16,700 in January 2024. 800 in February 2026. June and December proclamations. January 2026 pause. The vinyl chair in that consular hall still holds the household that already bought the lock.
Look every working father who still waits on a legal petition in the eye and answer this: if Cato already printed the 96 percent drop, who still owns the next month that treats vetting as optional?
Comments
16,700. Then 800. Ninety-six percent. Keep those three stamps.
I stood a gate so a visa still meant a verified name. A high-risk pause is not a weather report.
EO 14161. June and December proclamations. January 2026 pause. Print the three.
Allied desks still stop a stamp when the sending government cannot verify the name.
Refugee halt. Self-sufficiency rule. Cato chart Sept. 29. File the three.
I still smell motor oil at 2 a.m. I want the next issuance on a verified file.
A 96 percent crash is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
A 16,700 pipeline next to an 800 floor is a second border around every honest port.
Daily Wire printed Cato, 16,700, and 800. Argue those nouns.
Hold the pause. Keep the vetting. A stamp is not a participation trophy.
