Abstract
From the moment that he first announced his presidential candidacy until his final days in office, Donald Trump’s signature personal political cause was the restriction of immigration. Media coverage and public debate often focused on Trump’s rhetorical invocation of this issue and emphasized his opposition to undocumented immigration in particular, as symbolized by his famous proposal to build a wall across the southern border of the United States. But while the wall itself was not completed, the Trump administration worked aggressively through the federal bureaucracy to reduce all forms of immigration. The Trump administration’s record on immigration should therefore be understood as extending far beyond charged presidential rhetoric and sporadic wall-building efforts, leaving a much more consequential substantive legacy in American immigration policy that will not be quickly or easily reversed by future presidents.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- The Forum: Spring 2021 Introduction
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- Book Reviews
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- The Forum: Spring 2021 Introduction
- Articles
- Assessing the Trump Presidency on Its Own Terms
- Change and Continuity in White House Staffing: The Trump Factor
- The Role of Anti-Establishment Orientations During the Trump Presidency
- Angry about Fraud: How Congress Took up Trump’s Claims of Fraud
- Trump’s Immigration Legacy
- “In the Mold of Justice Scalia”: The Contours & Consequences of the Trump Judiciary
- The Trump Era Legacy of Partisanism
- Book Reviews
- Nazita Lajevardi’s: Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia
- Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett: The Upswing: How American Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again