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.

Sources

  1. Remove existing Syrian refugees PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020