A LONG look at Trump Immigration Misses……

Below from Wiki is a extensive look back….

Interesting how he has tried and tripped on the this so many times….

Oh ?

Obama actually deport MORE people than Trump did*…..

Reality vs Donald Trump’s Bull Shit as President and in his personal businness actions…

And the “Wall’ thing?

 

Immigration policy, including illegal immigration to the United States, was a signature issue of former U.S. president Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign, and his proposed reforms and remarks about this issue generated much publicity.^[1] Trump has repeatedly said that illegal immigrants are criminals.^[2][3]

A hallmark promise of his campaign was to build a substantial wall on the United States–Mexico border and to force Mexico to pay for the wall. Trump has also expressed support for a variety of “limits on legal immigration and guest-worker visas”,^[1][4] including a “pause” on granting green cards, which Trump says will “allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages”.^[5][6][7] Trump’s proposals regarding H-1B visas frequently changed throughout his presidential campaign, but as of late July 2016, he appeared to oppose the H-1B visa program.^[8]

As president, on January 27, 2017, Trump issued an executive order banning the admission of travelers, immigrants, and refugees from seven Muslim-majority nations, which later expanded to thirteen in 2020.^[9] In response to legal challenges he revised the ban twice, with his third version being upheld by the Supreme Court in June 2018. He attempted to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but a legal injunction has allowed the policy to continue while the matter is the subject of legal challenge. He imposed a “zero tolerance” policy to require the arrest of anyone caught illegally crossing the border, which resulted in separating children from their families.^[10] Tim Cook and 58 other CEOs of major American companies warned of harm from Trump’s immigration policy.^[11] The “zero tolerance” policy was reversed in June 2018, but multiple media reports of continued family separations were published in the first half of 2019.

In his first State of the Union address on January 30, 2018, Trump outlined his administration’s four pillars for immigration reform: (1) a path to citizenship for DREAMers; (2) increased border security funding; (3) ending the diversity visa lottery; and (4) restrictions on family-based immigration.^[12] In the August 2022 issue of The Atlantic, the cover story wrote that if the architects of the family separation return to power they “will likely seek to reinstate it.”^[13]

In March 2016, Trump addressed E-Verify, an online tool provided by the American government to detect if business employees are unauthorized aliens. Trump declared: “I’m using E-Verify on just about every job … I’ll tell you, it works.”^[14] In December 2018, The Washington Times reported that in the 565 companies that President Trump had a financial stake in as disclosed in May 2018, only 5 companies (less than 1%) used E-Verify.^[15] In January 2019, Trump’s son, Eric Trump, said that The Trump Organization was now “instituting E-Verify on all of our properties as soon as possible”.^[16]

In August 2016, according to Time magazine, just-unsealed court documents from 1990 showed testimony and sworn depositions revealing that in 1979 and 1980, Trump had personally met with illegal Polish immigrant workers at their jobs, having beforehand instructed for them to be hired through a new company in order to employ them to demolish a building to make way for the Trump Tower in Manhattan. Trump had later toured the demolition site multiple times. The workers did 12-hour shifts, some worked 24-hour shifts, and all were paid between $4.00 and $5.00 per hour—less than half the stipulated union wage at the time. The workers testified to the fact that most of them had not used safety equipment like hard hats. When a dispute over workers not being paid had occurred, Trump had personally met some of the workers and had agreed to pay them directly, according to testimony. Trump’s payments had been inconsistent and had led to further disputes with the workers. Daniel Sullivan, a labor consultant, testified that Trump in June 1980 asked Sullivan for advice pertaining to the fact that “he had some illegal Polish employees on the job”. Although not part of his official testimony, Sullivan later said that the Polish workers had been receiving “starvation wages”. John Szabo, the lawyer for the Polish workers, testified that in August 1980 he had received a call from Trump’s lawyer Irwin Durben, who had told him that Trump had been threatening to have the Polish workers deported. In 1998, after a 15-year legal battle over whether Trump had neglected to pay his due amount into a union fund for the Polish workers, Trump settled the case only when a jury trial pertaining to whether he was the legal employer of the Polish workers had become imminent. Between 1980 and 2016, Trump repeatedly denied that he had known that the Polish workers had been illegal immigrants.^[17]

In November 2017, more court documents regarding the above situation of the Polish workers were unsealed. They showed that a crew of 200 Polish workers had worked on the demolition, and that Trump had ultimately paid a settlement of $1.375 million, including $0.5 million to the union fund, after appealing a judge’s ruling that he was indeed the legal employer of the Polish workers.^[18]

In July 2017, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club applied for visas to hire foreign workers – 15 housekeepers, 20 cooks and 35 servers from October 2017 to May 2018. Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida did the same for 6 cooks.^[19]….

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On September 12, 2017, the United States Department of Homeland Security issued a notice that Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke would be waiving “certain laws, regulations and other legal requirements” to begin construction of the new wall near Calexico, California.^[76] The waiver allows the Department of Homeland Security to bypass the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Noise Control Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Antiquities Act, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.^[77] The state of California, some environmental groups, and Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) filed suit challenging the waivers granted to permit the building of a border wall.^[78][79] On February 27, 2018, Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel ruled that under federal law the administration has the authority to waive multiple environmental laws and regulations in order to expedite the construction of border walls and other infrastructure, so that wall construction can proceed.^[80]

The federal government was partially shut down in December 2018 over funding for a wall. In a appearance on State of the Union, Republican Senator Bob Corker called the conflict between Democrats and Republicans over funding a wall a “purposely contrived fight … a made-up fight so the president can look like he’s fighting but even if he wins, our borders are going to be insecure.” Corker noted that more funding was passed for border security in 2013 with bipartisan support and said that if Trump was more concerned about border security than politics, he would have accepted a deal offered by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer the previous January that would have allocated $25 billion for border security in exchange for the reauthorization of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals(DACA).^[81]

On January 4, 2019, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders falsely asserted that nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists “that came across our southern border” were apprehended during 2018. However, the figure was actually from fiscal 2017 and referred mostly to individuals who were stopped while attempting to enter America by air at both domestic and foreign airports.^[82] DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen made a similar false assertion the same day.^[83] The State Department reported in September 2018 that by the end of 2017 “there was no credible evidence indicating that international terrorist groups have established bases in Mexico, worked with Mexican drug cartels, or sent operatives via Mexico into the United States.”^[84][85]

As of August 2019, the Trump administration’s barrier construction had been limited to replacing sections that were in need of repair or outdated,^[86] with 60 miles (97 km) of replacement wall built in the Southwest since 2017.^[87]

On June 23, 2020, Trump visited Yuma, Arizona, for a 2020 campaign rally commemorating the completion of 200 miles (320 km) of the wall.^[88] U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that almost all of this was replacement fencing.^[89] By the end of Trump’s term on January 21, 2021, 452 miles (727 km) had been built at last report by CBP on January 5, much of it replacing outdated or dilapidated existing barriers.^[90]