US Freezes Immigration From 75 Countries
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The United States has expanded its immigration freeze to include 75 countries. This is partly about national security, but it also extends beyond that to include a new initiative against mass welfare and populations more likely to become dependent on American taxpayers.
We'll discuss this topic and others in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | The United States is cracking down on immigration overall, and the State Department is now even |
| 0:06.0 | freezing legal immigration from 75 countries. And on that topic also, there are large-scale |
| 0:12.7 | investigations in a fraud in Minnesota. This is now sparking efforts to deport Samalians and |
| 0:18.5 | protests are trying to block those deportations. |
| 0:21.2 | And really this all ties into sanctuary city laws. |
| 0:24.3 | Some big updates on this. |
| 0:26.3 | And meanwhile, the Department of Labor came out with a very strong statement against |
| 0:30.4 | globalism, saying that globalism has crushed the American dream. |
| 0:36.9 | Now I'll be going to these topics and a lot more today, |
| 0:39.3 | so make sure to hit the like button, leave a comment. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, |
| 0:45.3 | and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:52.3 | The immigration issue in the United States could really turn to something a lot bigger. |
| 0:59.3 | The United States has now expanded its immigration freeze to include 75 countries. |
| 1:05.1 | Now remember they had done this against a lot of terror risk countries, a lot of Muslim countries. They've now expanded this to 75 countries total. |
| 1:13.6 | Now this is partly about national security as I mentioned, but it actually extends beyond that |
| 1:18.6 | to include new initiatives against welfare, populations more likely to come to America |
| 1:24.6 | and then live off the backs of the American taxpayer. |
| 1:27.9 | There's frankly a lot of them. Trump's been posting lists about them. |
| 1:30.9 | The State Department says this. The State Department will pause immigration visa processing |
| 1:36.0 | from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates. |
| 1:45.5 | Briefly on this, Trump had actually published lists showing populations and percentages of the populations |
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