The White House's Rapid Response 47 account posted a graph on September 29, 2026, claiming legal immigration from majority-Muslim nations is down 96 percent since 2024.
That sharpens the earlier White House claim of a cut of "more than 90 percent" in legalized migration from Muslim-majority countries. The new pieces: a specific number, a Cabinet-level echo, and a round of Republican victory laps.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin posted the same figure the same day (September 29), with a different label. He wrote that "tougher vetting" has "cut admissions from high-risk countries by 96%." Mullin's post says "high-risk countries." Rapid Response 47's says "majority-Muslim nations." Neither post explains whether those are the same list.
Developing — unverified: the 96 percent figure, the Gateway Pundit's "all-time low" claim, and whether Mullin's "high-risk" category matches the Rapid Response 47 category. The coverage cites no underlying government data. A graph is not a dataset.
A graph is not a dataset.
A short social post from an account called #Trump says the data comes from Cato and that monthly arrivals peaked at more than 22,000. The post is a single line with a link. We have not seen a Cato document, so treat both details as unconfirmed.
The story reached us through the right-wing site The Gateway Pundit, which relayed reporting from Breitbart News and Fox News. Breitbart's framing is commentary, not reporting. It called the cuts "a huge setback to the progressive policy of importing diverse migrants." The Gateway Pundit's own author added that Muslim immigrants have "a very poor record on assimilation." Neither claim comes with evidence in the piece.
Noah Pollak, described by Breitbart as a Trump deputy at the Treasury and Education departments, went further on X. "This is the single most consequential policy to combat antisemitism in the US in the last decade and it's not even close," he wrote.
Fox News reported that the right cheered. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, called it an "absolutely incredible victory for the American people." Brandon Herrera, the GOP nominee in Texas' 23rd District, said, "These are the wins we need to continue to deliver on." Columnist Kurt Schlichter wrote, "Let's pump up those rookie numbers for every category of immigrant."
Some posters turned the graph into a midterm pitch. Fox says they urged conservatives to vote despite concerns about cost of living and the Iran war. Turning Point Action's Ben Larrabee warned that Democrats "will reverse this overnight."
Here is the plain part: a government that wants credit for a number should show where the number comes from. So far, a chart and a tweet are all anyone has shown.
Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., did the math his own way: "4 percent to go! Thank you, President Trump."