What immigration policies is Trump considering for his second term?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump plans to end Biden's humanitarian "parole" programs, including one that allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants with U.S. sponsors to enter the U.S. and obtain work permits.
54% : At an October campaign event, Trump said he would call on Congress to fund an additional 10,000 Border Patrol agents, a substantial increase over the existing force.
53% : Trump has said he would push for "a merit-based immigration system that protects American labor and promotes American values."
44% : Trump said on a podcast in June that he backed giving green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges or junior colleges, but Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt later said the proposal "would only apply to the most thoroughly vetted college graduates who would never undercut American wages or workers.
43% : Trump also said at the campaign event that he would consider using tariffs to pressure China and other nations to stop migrants from their countries from coming to the U.S.-Mexico border.
41% : Trump would rely on the National Guard, if needed, to arrest and deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally, he said.
39% : Here are some of the policies under consideration, according to Trump, his campaign and news reports:MASS DEPORTATIONS Trump has pledged to launch the largest deportation effort in American history, focusing on criminals but aiming to send millions back to their home countries, an effort that is expected to tap resources across the U.S. government but also face obstacles.
36% : TRAVEL BANS Trump has said he would implement travel bans on people from certain countries or with certain ideologies, expanding on a policy upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.
36% : While Trump has refused to rule out reinstating a family separation policy, Trump's incoming "border czar" Tom Homan told Reuters last year that the separations "caused an uproar" and that it would be better to detain families together.
35% : Trump appeared to confirm in a Truth Social post on Monday that he would declare a national emergency and use military assets for his plan to deport a record number of immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
35% : Trump called for the death penalty for migrants who kill U.S. citizens or law enforcement officers at an October rally in Aurora, Colorado.
34% : Trump said last June he would seek to block communists, Marxists and socialists from entering the U.S.LEGAL IMMIGRATION
30% : Trump has said he would restore his 2019 "remain in Mexico" program, which forced asylum-seekers of certain nationalities attempting to enter the U.S. at the southern border to wait in Mexico for resolution of their cases.
30% : During the speech, Trump focused on the conflict in Gaza, saying he would bar the entry of immigrants who support the Islamist militant group Hamas and send deportation officers to pro-Hamas protests.
30% : Trump said last year he would seek to end automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. to immigrants living in the country illegally, an idea he flirted with as president.
29% : Trump previewed some parts of the world that could be subjected to a renewed travel ban in an October 2023 speech, pledging to restrict people from the Gaza Strip, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and "anywhere else that threatens our security."
29% : Following the Supreme Court ruling, the Trump administration said it would not accept any new applications to the program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and would explore whether it could again attempt to end it.
27% : Trump tried to phase out most Temporary Protected Status enrollment during his first term, but was slowed by legal challenges.
25% : Trump has said he will seek to detain all migrants caught crossing the border illegally or violating other immigration laws, ending what he calls "catch and release."
25% : Trump plans to try to end DACA if elected, the New York Times reported.
23% : Trump told Time in April that he did not rule out building new migrant detention camps but "there wouldn't be that much of a need for them" because migrants would be rapidly removed.
23% : In a town hall with CNN last year, Trump declined to rule out resuming his contentious "zero tolerance" policy that led thousands of migrant children and parents to be separated at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018.
20% : Trump has also vowed to take aggressive new actions to deport immigrants with criminal records and suspected gang members by using the Alien Enemies Act, a 226-year-old statute last utilized for interning people of Japanese, German and Italian descent during World War Two.
16% : During a rally in Wisconsin in September, Trump said deporting migrants would be "a bloody story," rhetoric that sparked criticism from immigrant advocates.
12% : Trump defeated Harris in the Nov. 5 election where immigration was a top voter issue.
12% : During his first term, Trump greatly reduced the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. and has criticized Biden's decision to increase admissions.
11% : Harris criticized Trump for helping kill a bipartisan border security bill earlier this year that could have added 1,300 more agents.
10% : Trump also plans to immediately scrap President Joe Biden's immigration-enforcement priorities, which focused on arresting serious criminals and limited enforcement against people with no criminal records.
8% : Trump criticized a Biden asylum ban rolled out last June and pledged to reverse it during a campaign event in Arizona.

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