President Trump and Migration at 3
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https://doi.org/10.59670/ml.v17i1.903Keywords:
internal migration, Birmingham, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, deprivation, segregation, ethno-religious clustering, Trojan HorseAbstract
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.
Author Biography
Philip L. Martin, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Davis
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