Ledger · 2024 campaign · № 204

Restore the Remain in Mexico program

Still waiting
“[paraphrase] We will immediately reinstate Remain in Mexico.”
Promised
, Campaign rallies and the 2024 Republican platform
Re-promised
8 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Immigration
Era
2024 campaign

What happened

PolitiFact still rated this Stalled at the one-year mark in January 2026. The program requires Mexican cooperation that has not been secured at scale, and the administration relied instead on third-country removals and near-total asylum shutdowns at the border.

Sources

  1. MAGA-Meter: Restore Remain in Mexico program PolitiFact, Jan 20, 2026
  2. Trump said he kept all of his promises. Our MAGA-Meter disagrees PolitiFact, May 12, 2026