Sentimientos y políticas antimigrantes y antimexicanos durante los primeros 18 meses de la Presidencia Trump

Abstract

Trump's destructive anti-immigrant and "Mexican-phobic" rhetoric has been the common denominator justifying the wide variety of executive orders he has signed and the highly punitive directives he has established as part of his hard-line immigration policy, which has played a leading role during his first 18 months as president. The author describes how, without congressional approval, he has made several moves and imposed numerous actions such as significantly increasing the criminalization of immigrants; considerably raising the number of detentions of non-criminal undocumented migrants; responding aggressively to sanctuary policies; putting an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (daca) and the Temporary Protected Status (tps) of more than one million immigrants; appreciably decreasing refugee admissions; banning Muslims from entering the U.S.; and very inhumanly and cruelly separating families at the border, among other measures. As president, Trump has enjoyed broad discretion to implement his aggressive hard-line immigration policy as never before; nonetheless, divisions within Congress and some objections from the courts have been crucial for stopping his harsh anti-immigrant policies. Trump's actions have negatively affected immigrants, mainly of Mexican and Muslim origin, significantly damaging the historically strong bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Mexico.

Assessing Mental Health Vulnerability Among First- and Second-Generation Immigrants During the Trump Administration

“…Many immigrants of both generations have long contended with the stress of living under exclusionary immigration policies (Dreby, 2015;Getrich, 2013). Yet, the stress was exacerbated during the Trump administration due to heightened exclusionary immigration policies and the extraordinary stress of a global pandemic (Berger Cardoso et al, 2021;Canizales & Vallejo, 2021;Held et al, 2022c;Verea, 2018;Wang & Kaushal, 2019). A core foundation of the Trump presidential campaign was building a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border as one of multiple strategies to prevent immigrant entry (Verney, 2018).…”

“…The years between 2016 and 2020 were stressful for both first- and second-generation immigrants under former President Donald J. Trump. While the lived realities may have differed across immigrant communities, many immigrants contended with exclusionary policies that created a climate of fear and uncertainty (Aranda & Vaquera, 2018; Nkimbeng et al, 2021; Rodriguez et al, 2021; Verea, 2018). Discrimination during this period was visible not only within the general public but also through public statements by President Trump, impacting public rhetoric and attitudes toward immigrants (Feinberg et al, 2022; Gover et al, 2020; United Nations Development Program, 2020).…”

“…A core foundation of the Trump presidential campaign was building a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border as one of multiple strategies to prevent immigrant entry (Verney, 2018). Once elected, proposed and enacted exclusionary immigration policies continued, including entry bans from select nations (Allen & Goetz, 2021; Kanno-Youngs, 2021), ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA; Romo et al, 2017), reduced access to asylum (Center for Migration Studies, 2021), and increased use of border detentions (Garrett, 2020; Verea, 2018).…”

Sentimientos y políticas antimigrantes y antimexicanos durante los primeros 18 meses de la Presidencia Trump

“…Clause by targeting a cohort of "Dreamers," revealing "a racial animus" toward Mexicans (Neumeister and Johnson, 2017). I am certain that if the majority of the "Dreamers" were of Caucasian descent, The suit demands the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas "declare daca unlawful" and block the federal government from issuing any more work permits under the program (Sacchett, 2018). b) Temporary Protected Status (tps).…”

The Drug War and Regional Social Capital in Mexico

“…The data consists of the 32 federal states of Mexico and covers the period from January 2004 to December 2016. This time span has been used, because we wanted to exclude the period of the Trump administration in the US (starting in January 2017), which worsened the US‐Mexican relationship because of the construction of the wall on the southern US border and his anti‐Mexican rhetoric (Verea, 2018). Moreover, the estimation period ends before the pandemic, which is likely to have had dramatic effects on social capital.…”