The Republicans have never liked immigrants. They have succeeded in keeping things underfunded so the bureaucracy stretches out far longer than needed in a sane system.

And underfunded to the point of delaying things despite fees for comparable activities being far more expensive on the US side than in Germany, and even before this year.

It's certainly less FUD now that we have secret police and a psuedo-monarch dedicated to ruining the lives of immigrants.

If I were an immigrant, or someone wanting to immigrate to the US, I would consider it carefully.