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COMMENT
REMAIN IN MEXICO: THE MIGRANT PROTECTION
PROTOCOLS' FAILURE TO PROTECT*
I. INTRODUCTION
Only days before the 2018 midterm election, President Donald Trump called
immigrants, or asylum seekers, fleeing violence an invasion.1 It was not unusual for
Trump to use this type of pejorative language Trump had publicly used demeaning
terms such as predator and killer to refer to immigrants at the southern border not
once or twice, but over 500 times.2 Though Trump insisted his intention was not to create
division,3 political commentators have noted that the repetitive use of dehumanizing
rhetoric was a purposeful tool used to engender a view of immigrants as a threat to the
safety of the United States.4 Trump responded to his base's support for one of his
headline issues by enacting measures aimed at undercutting immigration flow and
attacking the asylum system.5 Specifically, the Trump administration was determined to
decrease the rate of migration across the southern border.6 Among the myriad of changes
* Angela Stoltzfus, J.D. Candidate, Temple University Beasley School of Law, 2023. Thank you to Dean
Jaya Ramji Nogales for her thoughtful guidance and feedback, to Temple Law Review (particularly the staff
editors) for truly excellent editorial support, including hours and hours of review, and to my family and friends
for their unending support and encouragement.
1. Eugene Scott, Trump's Most Insulting - and Violent - Language Is Often Reserved for Immigrants,
WASH. POST (Oct. 2, 2019, 3:21 PM), https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/02/
trumps-most-insulting-violent-language-is-often-reserved-immigrants/ [https://perma.cc/Y6GN-VP8K].
2. John Fritze, Trump Used Words Like Invasion' and 'Killer' to Discuss Immigrants at Rallies 500
Times: USA Today Analysis, USA TODAY (Aug. 21, 2019, 10:18 AM), https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/
politics/elections/2019/08/08/trump-immigrants-rhetoric-criticized-el-paso-dayton-shootings/1936742001/
[https://perma.cc/9LPM-NYU5].
3. Scott, supra note 1.
4. Fritze, supra note 2. (Trump does nothing by accident.... The use of repetition - a propaganda
mainstay - points to an intention by Trump to impose a way of thinking about his designated targets. (internal
quotation marks omitted)).
5. See JESSICA BOLTER, EMMA ISRAEL & SARAH PIERCE, FOUR YEARS OF PROFOUND CHANGE:
IMMIGRATION POLICY DURING THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY (Migration Policy Institute, ed. 2022),
https://www.migmtionpolicy.org/research/four-years-change-immigration-trump
[https://perma.cc/F3XX-2HDY] (providing overview of immigration policies over Trump's presidential term,
including travel bans, immigration enforcement, and deferred action programs); see also ANDREW I.
SCHOENHOLTZ, JAYA RAMJI-NOGALES & PHILIP G. SCHRAG, END OF ASYLUM 67-86 (2021) (discussing various
measures Trump enacted to decrease the rate of asylum grants).
6. See Grant Rates Plummet as Trump Administration Dismantles US. Asylum System, Blocks and
Deports Refugees, HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST (June 11, 2020), https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/
grant-rates-plummet-as-trump-administration-dismantles-u-s-asylum-system-blocks-and-deports-refugees/
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