Trump’s Immigration Overhaul: $442 Visa Fee, $15K Bonds & 10K New Deportation Officers

A sweeping suite of rules and resources under President Trump will reshape U.S. immigration policy this fall.

A new $250 "visa integrity fee" more than doubles costs for non-waiver travelers starting Oct. 1, while a proposed rule would limit international students to four years of study. At the same time, ICE has secured over $75 billion for hiring 10,000 deportation officers and Border Patrol is accelerating its 5,000-agent expansion with grueling training in New Mexico.

When Donald Trump demanded a 10% federal stake in Intel and threatened to unilaterally rewrite voting rules, he pierced the GOP's free-market and federalist armor. Some conservatives now warn his actions—once lampooned as socialist overreach—expose a stark break from principles they once championed.

Trump's EPA is axing key greenhouse-gas regulations and shuttering public data, and scientists aren't standing by. After the agency halted annual emissions reports and buried NOAA's climate.gov site, ex-staff led by Rebecca Lindsey have launched climate.us, a nonprofit portal to preserve taxpayer-funded climate science and offer new services to local governments.