US President Donald Trump came into office one year ago, on January 20th, 2017. After his inauguration, Trump made promises such as building a wall on the Mexican border and imposing stricter immigration rules. Let's check whether these promises have been realized or not.
US President Donald Trump made many promises during his campaign to be the 45th president of the United States, among which is to harden the country's policies regarding illegal immigration. At the one-year mark of his presidency, let's see how Trump is doing on delivering his immigration promises.
DONALD TRUMP US PRESIDENT "We must restore integrity and the rule of law at our borders. For that reason, we will soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border."
The promise to "build the wall" is still a work in progress. Trump tweeted out a few days after his inauguration, "Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!" Congress released the 1.6-billion-US dollar bill on constructing the border wall in mid-July of last year. House passed, and the bill is now in Senate.
DONALD TRUMP US PRESIDENT "We need a wall. We need closing enforcement. We will have close enforcement loopholes."
Prototypes of the wall have been released, but there has been no sign of where the funding will come from. However, Trump remains firm on his stance. "The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it," Trump tweeted on Jan.18.
JOURNALIST "Should the Dreamers be worried?"
DONALD TRUMP US PRESIDENT "We love the Dreamers. We love everybody. Thank you very much."
Trump has called to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, an Obama-era rule. In February 2017, a federal judge in Seattle declined to release 23-year-old immigrant Daniel Ramirez Medina from detention. He was later released in March.
DONALD TRUMP US PRESIDENT "It has to be a bill to end chain migration. Chain migration is bringing in many many people with one and often it doesn't work out very well, as many people not doing us right."
On the latest, the president is expected to announce the decision on DACA, but giving Congress six-month period for a legislative solution. The promise is still a work in progress.
DONALD TRUMP US PRESIDENT "It's not a Muslim Ban, we're totally prepared. It's working out very nicely."
Thousands in the US took to the streets last February on Trump's signing of a travel ban. The ban blocked citizens of the seven countries-Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen-where the majority of the citizens are Muslims. Individuals from those countries who have no clear ties to an individual or an entity in the US will not be allowed to enter. The second version of the ban has been blocked by a federal judge in Maryland last October, and Trump said he won't stop the fight.
DONALD TRUMP US PRESIDENT "We're going to have a very, very strict ban and we're going to have extreme vetting which we should have had in this country for many years."
The travel ban 3.0 version took Iraq off the list, but added in Chad, the DPRK and some Venezuelan officials and families, turning the Muslim ban into a travel ban. The Supreme Court allowed part of the ban to take effect in December. Though many are still in progress, Trump's message has been clear on his ambitious agenda of making the US free from illegal immigration. In Beijing, Jasmine Cen, CGTN.