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In Just Six Months, Trump’s Immigration Policy Has Built a Crueler World

Release Date: 2025-07-25
Media: American Immigration Council
Summary: The American Immigration Council’s new report, Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Immigrants, Democracy, and America, analyzes the first six months of Trump’s second administration and how immigration policy is reshaping the U.S.’s global role.

The report argues that the Trump administration’s view of American power departs sharply from traditional ideals of the U.S. as a nation of immigrants promoting global freedom. Instead, immigration policy is being used as a foreign policy weapon — rewarding countries that cooperate with harsh enforcement and punishing those that don’t.

Examples include:

Favoring white Afrikaner farmers for refugee status while rejecting others facing more serious threats.

Imposing visa bans on unrelated countries after a hate crime involving an Egyptian asylum seeker, while avoiding criticism of Egypt.

Partnering with human rights-abusing governments like El Salvador and Libya to detain deported migrants indefinitely.

Threatening travel bans against countries that don’t take deportees, while ceasing to criticize countries that restrict citizens’ right to leave.

The administration is also targeting academic institutions and highly skilled immigrants, discouraging foreign talent and potentially causing a brain drain that weakens U.S. global leadership.

In short, the Trump administration is redefining American leadership through fear, exclusion, and power politics — making the world a harsher place for immigrants in the process.
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