London (AP) – The world can rethink the American dream.
For centuries, people in other countries have seen the United States as a welcoming and chance location. Now President Donald Trump is putting the streets of Los Angeles, College Campus and even churches – and promotes global rethinking over the virtues and the promise to come to America.
“The message from Washington is that they are not welcome in the USA,” said Edwin van Rest, CEO of Studyportals, the real-time searches for international students who are considering in other countries. The student’s interest in the study in America has dropped to the lowest level since Covid 19 pandemic. “The fact is that there are great opportunities elsewhere.”
There has long been a romantized idea of immigration and America. The reality was always different, since breed and ethnicity belong to the undeniable roles during the tension about who can be an American. The USA still waves the “hidden masses” from the base of the Statue of Liberty. Every year the sturdy economy has contributed to pulling millions more, with the inflow drifting over 340 million to the US population.
Early indications in industries – such as tourism, trade, entertainment and education – indicate that the American dream fades for foreigners who have historically flooded into the USA
The polls of the Pew Research Center from January to April showed that the opinions of the United States deteriorated in 15 of the 24 countries surveyed last year.
Trump and many of his followers claim that migrants in the country illegally threaten American security, jobs and culture. But the people in the country are also legally caught in Trump’s dragnet. And that makes potential visitors in the USA, also as tourists who are suspicious.
Trump’s global tariff war and his campaign against international students who expressed themselves remain particularly stubborn in the minds of people across American borders, who had been able to speak and opportunities for decades.
“The chances of something really terrible are almost certainly tiny,” advised Duncan Greaves, 62, from Queensland, Australia, a Reddit user who asked if he should risk a vacation on the land of Grilles, Big Sky Country and fireworks on July 4th. “Basically it is like the dirty Harry quote: ‘Do you feel happy?'”
“American Creed”, American dilemma
During the majority of its history, America promoted immigration when the country was looking for intellectual and economic fuel to promote its growth.
But from the beginning, the United States wrestled with the question of who can be an American. The novel country was built on land, which was brutally beaten by the American indigenous people. It was later populated by millions of enslaved Africans.
The American civil war sometimes lit over the same topic. The Federal Law of the Federation of Chinese exclusion from 1882 banned the immigration of Chinese workers for a decade. During the Second World War, the US government imprisoned around 120,000 people of Japanese origin in 10 concentration camps. About two thirds were US citizens.
Nevertheless, the United States have always been a nation of immigrants, which was controlled by the “American Creed”, which was developed by Thomas Jefferson and which indicates that the principles of equality, tough work and freedom are naturally American.
After all, everyone comes from somewhere a fact that underlined the Oval Office in front of the camera this month when German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gave the President the framed birth certificate of Trump’s grandfather named Friedrich, who emigrated from Germany in 1885. He was one of the Miagen of Mühlen from Keims, that in the United 19. Century in the United countries.
There is also a story that indicates that the Trump family knows both the triumph of immigration as well as the fight and the shame of being driven out.
After the older Trump married in America and had taken a fortune, he obtained the US citizenship and tried to return to Germany. He was shown not to have completed his military service – and wrote about experience.
“Why should we be deported? This is very, very difficult for a family,” said Friedrich Trump in 1905 to Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bayern, according to a translation in Harper’s Magazine. “What will our fellow citizens think when honest topics are confronted with such a decree – not to mention the great material losses they would arise.”
Trump himself married two women with a migration background: the slow Ivana Zelníčková Trump of today’s Czech Republic and his present wife Melania Knauss Trump from Slovenia.
They still come to America. For Trump this is a problem for a long time
It is complex to overestimate the extent to which immigration changed the face and culture of America – and shared it.
The Immigration in 2024 led the population growth of the USA to the fastest rate in 23 years when the nation exceeded 340 million inhabitants, the US people’s counting office announced in December. Almost 2.8 million people hiked to the United States last year than in 2023, partly because of a novel counting method that were supplemented by people who were approved for humanitarian reasons. International net migration made 84% of the boost in the latest data by 3.3 million people through the country.
Immigration was for the entire growth in 16 countries, which, according to the Brookings Institution, would otherwise have lost the population.
But where some Americans see immigration largely as the influx of workers and brain power, Trump sees an “invasion”, a long -term perspective.
Since returning to the White House, Trump has initiated a far -reaching campaign to enforce immigration, which has pushed the limits of the executive power and collided with federal judges who try to restrict him because of his calling special powers for the deportation of people, to cancel visas and to take deported to third countries.
In his second term, in contrast to his first, he withdraws from some unpopular positions for immigration. Instead, the subject has turned out to be a Trump’s strongest problem in the public survey and reflected both its grip on the Republican basis and a broader change in the public mood. A survey by the Associated Press Norc Center for Public Affairs for Public Affairs showed that 46% of the US-growing people have to change the immigration of Trump, which are almost 10 percentage points over its approval rate for economy and trade. The survey was carried out at the beginning of the protests in Los Angeles and contained no questions about Trump’s military employ in the city.
Other countries like Denmark open their doors
The United States is still seen as an economic power plant, although, according to PEW survey, people in more countries are looking at the world’s largest economy, and it is unclear whether Trump’s policy feels a sensible drainage of international students and others who feel siege in the United States.
The study portals based in the Netherlands, which analyzed the search for international schools of millions of students worldwide, reported that weekly page views for degrees in the United States collapsed by half between January 5 and at the end of April. If the trend continues, the demand for programs in the USA could continue to decrease, with US programs against countries such as Great Britain and Australia.
“International students and their families are looking for predictability and security in the selection which country trust with their future,” said Fanta AW, CEO of Nafsa, which is represented by international educators. “Of course, the recent campaigns in the US government have shaken their confidence in the United States.”
