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Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats,” Presidential Proclamation 9645, September 24, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/
presidential-proclamation-enhancing-vetting-capabilities-processes-detecting-attempted-entry-united-states-terrorists-public-safety-threats/
(accessed September 29, 2020); Donald Trump, “Executive Order Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” Executive
Order 137569, January 27, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-
states/ (accessed September 29, 2020); and Donald Trump, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” Executive
Order 13780, March 6, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-
states-2/ (accessed September 29, 2020).
Trump, “Presidential Proclamation Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry into the United States by Terrorists or
Other Public-Safety Threats,” § 4.
Trump v. Hawaii, 138 S.Ct. 2392 (2018).
Ibid., at 2408.
Donald Trump, “Presidential Proclamation on Improving Enhanced Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry,” Presidential
Proclamation 9983, January 31, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-improving-enhanced-vetting-capabilities-
processes-detecting-attempted-entry/ (accessed September 28, 2020).
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “Raising the Global Travel Security Bar: DHS Announces New Travel Restrictions on Six Countries and Updated
Process for Evaluating Foreign Country Compliance,” January 31, 2020, https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/01/31/raising-global-travel-security-bar-dhs-
announces-new-travel-restrictions-six (accessed October 6, 2020).
Biden, “The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values.”
Lisa Soronen, “2nd Circuit Rules Against Cities and States in Sanctuary Jurisdictions Case,” National Conference of State Legislatures, February
27, 2020, https://www.ncsl.org/blog/2020/02/27/2nd-circuit-rules-against-cities-and-states-in-sanctuary-jurisdictions-case.aspx (accessed
October 1, 2020).
Donald Trump, “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” Executive Order 13768, January 25, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/
presidential-actions/executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united-states/ (accessed October 1, 2020).
Biden, “The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values.”
Ibid.
8 U.S. Code § 1225(b)(2) (2008).
Federal Register, Vol. 84, No. 136 (July 16, 2019), pp. 33829–33845.
Kirk Semple, “Asylum Seekers Say U.S. Is Returning Them to the Dangers They Fled,” New York Times, March 17, 2020, https://www.nytimes.
com/2020/03/17/world/americas/immigration-guatemala-us-asylum.html (accessed October 1, 2020).
Biden, “The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values.”
Ibid.
Nahal Toosi and Seung Min Kim, “Obama Raises Refugee Goal to 110,000, Infuriating GOP,” Politico, September 13, 2016, https://www.politico.com/
story/2016/09/obama-refugees-228134 (accessed October 1, 2020).
Donald Trump, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” Executive Order 13769, January 27, 2017, § 5(a), https://www.
whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states-2/ (accessed April 13, 2020).
Ibid., §5(d).
Andorra Bruno, “FY2020 Refugee Ceiling and Allocations,” Congressional Research Service, November 7, 2019, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/
IN11196.pdf (accessed October 1, 2020). President Trump has proposed 15,000 refugee admissions for the FY 2021 ceiling. See U.S. Department of State,
“Transmission of the President’s Report to Congress on the Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021,” September 30, 2020, https://www.state.
gov/transmission-of-the-presidents-report-to-congress-on-the-proposed-refugee-admissions-for-fiscal-year-2021/ (accessed October 1, 2020).
U.S. Department of State, “Report to Congress on Proposed Refugee Admissions for FY 2020,” Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration,
November 4, 2019, https://www.state.gov/reports/report-to-congress-on-proposed-refugee-admissions-for-fy-2020/ (accessed October 1, 2020).
U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “In-Country Refugee/Parole Program for Minors in El Salvador,
Guatemala, and Honduras With Parents Lawfully Present in the United States,” November 14, 2014, https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/prm/releases/
factsheets/2014/234067.htm (accessed October 6, 2020).
Ibid.
Federal Register, Vol. 82, No. 157 (August 16, 2017), pp. 389926–38927. The termination notice did not terminate the CAM portion of the program,
though CAM was later terminated as part of the U.S. government review of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for FY 2018. See U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, “In-Country Refugee/Parole Processing for Minors in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala (Central American Minors—CAM),”
https://www.uscis.gov/CAM (accessed April 16, 2020).