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President Trump and Migration at 3

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  • Philip L. Martin

    (Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Davis United States)

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Candidate Trump made reducing unauthorized migration a central theme of his campaign in 2015 and 2016 (Martin, 2017a). Soon after taking office, Trump issued executive orders that instructed the Department of Homeland Security to build a wall on the Mexico-US border, increase deportations, and reduce refugee admissions (Martin, 2017b). Immigration systems are like supertankers, hard to turn around quickly, but President Trump has in three years developed a restrictionist migration policy aimed at reducing unauthorized migration and asylum seeking. Even though Trump’s businesses employ low-skilled guest workers, there have been no major changes to the H-2A and H-2B guest worker programs.

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  • Philip L. Martin, 2020. "President Trump and Migration at 3," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 17(1), pages 191-200, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:17:y:2020:i:1:p:191-200
    DOI: 10.33182/ml.v17i1.903
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