January 19, 2021 Trump blocks Venezuelans’ deportation in last political gift https://apnews.com/general-news-international-news-88ba0f2a51b35bf8195e886d4210e5c3?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share “CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — With the clock winding down on his term, U.S. President Donald Trump shielded tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants from deportation Tuesday night, rewarding Venezuelan exiles who have been among his most loyal supporters and who fear losing the same privileged access to the White House during the Biden administration. Trump signed an executive order deferring for 18 months the removal of more than 145,000 Venezuelans who were at risk of being sent back to their crisis-wracked homeland. He cited the “deteriorative condition” within Venezuela that constitutes a national security threat as the basis for his decision. “America remains a beacon of hope and freedom for many, and now eligible Venezuelan nationals in the U.S. will receive much-needed temporary immigration relief,” Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican of Florida, said in a statement praising the decision. The last-minute reprieve — in sharp contrast to Trump’s hardline immigration policies the past four years — capped a busy final day in office that also saw Trump issue a sweeping new round of financial sanctions targeting the alleged front man of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and tighten controls to keep spying technology out of the hands of the Venezuelan military.”
Border crossings also increased during the Trump administration, only dropping in 2020 because of the pandemic. Compared to Obama, Trump was weak on immigration enforcement.
In 2023, 3.2 million encounters were recorded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, compared to the highest year of Trump's presidency, 2019, at 1.4 million.
Yes, this means that boarder patrol have been more active. It doesnt say anything about the number of border crossings. Honestly, it seems like you might want to support dems given they seem to be tightening control on the border based on that data.
I was a strong supporter of Biden immigration plan at his early days in to presidency, unfortunatly it didn't pass. But some how the message incoraged major migration, migrants believed President Biden will let them in.
Border encounters increased during the Trump administration from the Obama years. Obama was known as the Deporter in Chief. He was probably the strongest immigration law enforcer in my lifetime. Obama was a New Democrat just like Bill Clinton. He talked like a progressive, but he governed as a centrist. Trump is the opposite. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/01/migrant-encounters-at-u-s-mexico-border-have-fallen-sharply-in-2024/ I disagree a little with this Wikipedia entry. As president, I don't think Biden governs like a New Democrat. He's more like FDR and LBJ. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrats_(United_States)
Trump admin, restricted Islamists travel to the US. "On January 27, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order that banned travel to the United States for 90 days from seven predominantly Muslim countries–Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen–and suspended the resettlement of all Syrian refugees . The order sparked protests around the country at airports and immigrant rights, refugee resettlement, and civil liberties organizations undertook several legal challenges to the order on the grounds that it constituted religious discrimination. The suits against the travel bans resulted in court injunctions temporarily blocking the order and groups in opposition to the ban also blocked a second iteration of the executive order. Nevertheless, on June 26, 2018, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 opinion, ultimately allowed a third version of the executive order to go into force, which expanded the list of barred travelers to include nationals from Venezuela (limited to government officials) and North Korea. In 2020, the Trump administration expanded visa restrictions on six more countries–Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania–citing screening and national security concerns in those countries. Nationals of thirteen countries are currently subject to various travel restrictions."
The Muslim travel ban had nothing to do with illegal migration. The justification was national security based on the assumption that Muslim visitors could be terrorists. This was just Islamophobia. Being from a predominantly Muslim country does not mean you're an Islamist. Therefore, he was not banning Islamists.
