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.