{"id":16070,"date":"2025-01-13T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16070"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:15:14","slug":"how-trump-could-gut-the-refugee-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16070","title":{"rendered":"How Trump could gut the refugee program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“President-elect Donald Trump has promised to halt refugees from coming to the US<\/a> in his second term \u2014 a promise that will largely be within his power as president to keep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has said he plans to \u201csuspend refugee admission, stop the resettlement, and keep the terrorists the hell out of our country<\/a>\u201d on his first day back in office. The rules for refugee admissions were established by Congress, including in the 1980 Refugee Act<\/a>, but also via legislation directly following World War II. Therefore, any effort to formally end the refugee program would take an act of Congress. However, the president has lots of authority over refugee admissions \u2014 and Trump exercised that authority during his first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is up to the president to decide how many refugees will be allowed to enter the US in any given year, and Trump significantly lowered the cap on refugee admissions<\/a> during his first term. Presidents can also pause admissions<\/a>, as President George W. Bush did in the wake of 9\/11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery president has used their powers to either expand or contract as circumstances might fit,\u201d Eric Welsh of Reeves Immigration Law Group<\/a> told Vox. \u201cIt\u2019s something that is very, very susceptible to his influence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given how significantly Trump eroded the US\u2019 refugee program during his first term, it\u2019s not unreasonable to fear that he would do even more damage this time around. While there are technically legal limits to how much Trump can do to dismantle the refugee program, there is plenty the administration could do practically to gut it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/donald-trump\/391271\/refugees-trump-muslim-ban-syria-gaza<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President-elect Donald Trump has promised to halt refugees from coming to the US in his second term \u2014 a promise that will largely be within his power as president to keep.
\nTrump has said he plans to \u201csuspend refugee admission, stop the resettlement, and keep the terrorists the hell out of our country\u201d on his first day back in office. The rules for refugee admissions were established by Congress, including in the 1980 Refugee Act, but also via legislation directly following World War II. Therefore, any effort to formally end the refugee program would take an act of Congress. However, the president has lots of authority over refugee admissions \u2014 and Trump exercised that authority during his first term.<\/p>\n

It is up to the president to decide how many refugees will be allowed to enter the US in any given year, and Trump significantly lowered the cap on refugee admissions during his first term. Presidents can also pause admissions, as President George W. Bush did in the wake of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery president has used their powers to either expand or contract as circumstances might fit,\u201d Eric Welsh of Reeves Immigration Law Group told Vox. \u201cIt\u2019s something that is very, very susceptible to his influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given how significantly Trump eroded the US\u2019 refugee program during his first term, it\u2019s not unreasonable to fear that he would do even more damage this time around. While there are technically legal limits to how much Trump can do to dismantle the refugee program, there is plenty the administration could do practically to gut it.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/donald-trump\/391271\/refugees-trump-muslim-ban-syria-gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,493,25,411,232,170],"class_list":["post-16070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-policy","tag-refugees","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16071,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions\/16071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}