Will he stand his ground or will he fold?
Should his record speak for itself? So far he has solidly stood his ground on immigration:
Excerpt (from the liberal's point of view)
55 Ways Donald Trump Structurally Changed America in 2017
"Immigration
Travel from eight countries is banned
After 11 months’ worth of legal dueling, Trump has effectively delivered on a version of his Muslim ban. With the Supreme Court’s blessing, he’s halted nearly all travel from Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Chad, plus North Korea and (in some cases) Venezuela.
All refugees from 11 countries have been blocked from entering the U.S.
Trump’s infamous “travel ban” executive order in January also decreed that refugees could no longer come here — no matter which country they were fleeing. Again because of lawsuits, that rule has been watered down, but Trump has successfully banned refugees from ten majority-Muslim countries plus North Korea, leading to a 40 percent drop in overall refugee admissions and a
94 percent drop in Muslim refugees.
Protections for the Dreamers have been rescinded
The Department of Homeland Security will start cutting off protections for the nearly 700,000 Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children — in March, by decree from Trump. There’s
still a chance, however, that Congress will pass a new law in the interim offering them legal residency or a path to citizenship.
A program for child migrants fleeing violence in Central America is being phased out
More than 2,700 children, mostly from El Salvador, had received tentative approval to move here — but this year the State Department abruptly turned them away. It has also stopped accepting new applications for the program, which has been around since 2014, and plans to abolish it altogether.
The U.S. has backed out of the U.N.’s migration pact
U.S. representatives had been involved in a United Nations’ council on migration since the inaugural meeting this past spring. The idea is to coordinate help for more than 60 million people who have been driven from their homes by wars, poverty, or climate change. But the U.S.
announced in December that it was quitting; Secretary of State Rex Tillerson claimed that participating would undermine American sovereignty.
Spouses and children of refugees have lost their path into the U.S.
A program that helps refugees reunite with their families has been suspended by the State Department and other agencies — until when, no one knows.
Immigration agents are now required to treat the claims of asylum-seekers more skeptically
Homeland Security is telling its asylum officers to take a more critical stance on the stories of immigrants who say they are fleeing violence or persecution. If the interviewees seem nervous, the agents are to avoid factoring in that it might be caused by trauma or culture shock.
Green cards are taking longer to obtain
Homeland Security now requires in-person interviews for certain kinds of applications — something they had stopped doing ten years ago because it was a colossal waste of time. Immigration lawyers
told CNN it could mean millions fewer immigrants will be admitted here by 2020....."
