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Data and Analysis Related to Trump Administration Actions on Immigrant and Refugee Policy
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While in office, the Trump administration proposed and implemented policies on a wide range of immigration issues, touching on everything from asylum to deportation policy, refugee resettlement, and admissions from certain majority-Muslim countries. These MPI research and data resources offer context to policy changes achieved and proposed, as well as the populations they affect.
For a record of immigration developments during the Trump administration, check out this resource: Four Years of Profound Change: Immigration Policy during the Trump Presidency.
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- Overarching
Policy Changes - Refugees & Nationals
from Banned Countries - Asylum Policy &
Border Enforcement - Deportations &
Interior Enforcement - Restrictions on
Legal Immigration - Data Resources
REPORT: Four Years of Profound Change: Immigration Policy during the Trump Presidency
ARTICLE: The U.S. Presidential Campaign Cements Political Parties’ Deepening Schism on Immigration
ARTICLE: Impending USCIS Furloughs Will Contribute to a Historic Drop in U.S. Immigration Levels
COMMENTARY: USCIS Budget Implosion Owes to Far More than the Pandemic
REPORT: Immigration and U.S. National Security: The State of Play Since 9/11
REPORT: Immigration-Related Policy Changes in the First Two Years of the Trump Administration
REPORT: Eight Key U.S. Immigration Policy Issues: State of Play and Unanswered Questions
ARTICLE: Executive Power Showdown: Congress and White House Quarrel over Immigration Spending
ARTICLE: Sessions: The Trump Administration’s Once-Indispensable Man on Immigration
ARTICLE: Census Citizenship Question Triggers Legal and Political Fallout
REPORT: U.S. Immigration Policy under Trump: Deep Changes and Lasting Impacts
COMMENTARY: The Trump Immigration Plan: A Lopsided Proposal
REPORT: Trump's First Year on Immigration Policy: Rhetoric vs. Reality
ARTICLE: The Travel Ban at Two: Rocky Implementation Settles into Deeper Impacts
POLICY BRIEF: Revised Trump Executive Order and Guidance on Refugee Resettlement and Travel Ban
COMMENTARY: The Revised Trump Travel Ban: Who Might Be Affected from the Six Targeted Countries?
POLICY BRIEF: Trump Executive Order on Refugees and Travel Ban: A Brief Review
COMMENTARY: The Refugee Resettlement Program Is an Unsuitable Target
ARTICLE: Syrian Refugees in the United States
ARTICLE: Refugees and Asylees in the United States
ARTICLE: Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants in the United States
REPORT: Building a New Regional Migration System: Redefining U.S. Cooperation with Mexico and Central America
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POLICY BRIEF: Rethinking the U.S.-Mexico Border Immigration Enforcement System: A Policy Road Map
COMMENTARY: Strategic Solutions for the United States and Mexico to Manage the Migration Crisis
ARTICLE: Remain in Mexico Plan Echoes Earlier U.S. Policy to Deter Haitian Migration
COMMENTARY: Asylum Reform, Not Troops, Is the Solution to Current Border Reality
ARTICLE: Trump Administration’s New Indefinite Family Detention Policy: Deterrence Not Guaranteed
REPORT: The U.S. Asylum System in Crisis: Charting a Way Forward
ARTICLE: National Guard Heads to Southern Border Amid Differing Reality from Earlier Deployments
ARTICLE: Borders and Walls: Do Barriers Deter Unauthorized Migration?
ARTICLE: Trump's Promise of Millions of Deportations Is Yet to Be Fulfilled
REPORT: Immigration Enforcement and the Mental Health of Latino High School Students
REPORT: Revving Up the Deportation Machinery: Enforcement under Trump and the Pushback
ARTICLE: Trump Administration Ratchets up Pressure on “Sanctuary” Jurisdictions
ARTICLE: Shifting Gears, Trump Administration Launches High-Profile Worksite Enforcement Operations
ARTICLE: The Trump Administration at Six Months: A Sea Change in Immigration Enforcement
POLICY BRIEF: Trump Executive Order and DHS Guidance on Interior Enforcement: A Brief Review
ARTICLE: The Obama Record on Deportations: Deporter in Chief or Not?
REPORT: Deportation and Discretion: Reviewing the Record and Options for Change
REPORT: Delegation and Divergence: 287(g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement
ARTICLE: The “Trump Effect” on Legal Immigration Levels: More Perception than Reality?
ARTICLE: Crisis within a Crisis: Immigration in the United States in a Time of COVID-19
POLICY BRIEF: Gauging the Impact of DHS’ Proposed Public-Charge Rule on U.S. Immigration
ARTICLE: Even as Congress Remains on Sidelines, the Trump Administration Slows Legal Immigration
COMMENTARY: A Path to Citizenship for 1.8 Million DREAMERs? Despite Talk, No Proposal Would Do So
COMMENTARY: Legalization for DREAMers: A Realistic Appraisal of Potential Chain Migration
INTERACTIVE MAPS: U.S. Immigration Population by State and County and Metropolitan Area
INTERACTIVE MAP: Refugee Admissions by Year and Ceiling
INTERACTIVE TOOL: Modeling Potential U.S. Legal Immigration Cuts
DATA: Unauthorized Immigrant Population Profiles
INTERACTIVE MAP: Unauthorized Immigrant Populations in United States by Region or Country of Origin
INTERACTIVE MAP AND TOOL: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Data Tools