Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 20
Send existing Syrian refugees back
Never delivered“[paraphrase] If I win, they're going back.”
- Promised
- , Campaign rally, Keene, New Hampshire
- Re-promised
- 5 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Immigration
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Syrian refugees already admitted to the United States were not deported. Refugee admissions were sharply reduced, with the annual ceiling cut to 15,000 for fiscal 2021, but no removals of resettled Syrians took place. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.