During former President Donald Trump's time in the White House, his administration rattled the legal immigration system and implemented hardline policies with consequences that are still felt today. According to a new report by Axios' Stef W. Kight, the 2024 presidential frontrunner has even more draconian restrictions on his agenda.
"Trump's plan would involve waves of harsh new policies — and dust off old ones that rarely have been enforced, if ever," writes Kight. One policy would "ramp up ideological screening" for would-be legal immigrants. U.S. immigration law already largely bars Communist Party–affiliated people from immigrating, but Trump would reportedly expand that to reject "Marxist" applicants. Another policy would expand the former president's "Muslim ban" to "block more people from certain countries from entering the U.S.," notes Axios. Trump's platform would also include ending birthright citizenship and carrying out quick deportations of criminal migrants under "an obscure section of the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts."
