Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 58

Cancel visas for countries that won't take back deportees

Partial
“[paraphrase] We will cancel visas to foreign countries that will not take back their citizens we are deporting.”
Promised
, Immigration speech, Phoenix, Arizona
Re-promised
4 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Immigration
Era
2016 campaign

What happened

Visa sanctions were imposed on a handful of countries, including Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone in 2017 and additional countries later, but not on all nations classified as recalcitrant. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise.

Sources

  1. Cancel visas to foreign countries that won't take undocumented immigrants back PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020