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The article titled Immigration under Trump: A review of Policy Shifts in the Year since the Elections authored by Sarah Pierce and Andrew Selee was published in Migration Policy Institute’s policy brief of December 2017 ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"lxIAtjNh","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Pierce and Selee)","plainCitation":"(Pierce and Selee)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":773,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/SMIHS8ER"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/s8f0QVnP/items/SMIHS8ER"],"itemData":{"id":773,"type":"article-journal","title":"Immigration under Trump: A review of policy shifts in the year since the election","container-title":"Migration Policy Institute","source":"Google Scholar","title-short":"Immigration under Trump","author":[{"family":"Pierce","given":"Sarah"},{"family":"Selee","given":"Andrew"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Pierce and Selee). The authors have taken into account the details of how the immigration policy under Trump has remained too stiffened. The forced deportations, ban on travelers from some Muslim countries, increasing arrests of some illegal entrants to the US, and immigration enforcement is what Trump's five years immigration policy had to offer up till this date. The authors have argued that these such strides in the immigration policy are opposite to pre-election rhetoric of Donald Trump. The authors have remained critical about the immigration policy action what they have referred to as Presidential rhetoric.

The article includes a thorough analysis of the problems associated with the proposed immigration plan by President Trump. They have highlighted the key issues associated with the termination of the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, issues related to the building of a wall with Mexico border, and the legal issues which have to be dealt by the Congress. The pressing issue highlighted in the article is about the state's imposition of limits related to the federal immigration enforcement plan. Some other problems highlighted in the article are enhanced immigration enforcement, fewer refuges acceptances, growing obstacles for legal immigrants, discontinuation of DACA and the temporary protected status for immigrants.

This article is specifically related to the immigrant crisis which has aroused after President Trump's arrival in the office. Since he has been so mistrustful about the federal immigration policies which were enforced before his arrival to the office, therefore his proposed action plans have sparked much-heated debate between the republicans and the democrats. Other state institutions such as the Supreme Court (which has announced these actions as illegal) and the Congress (which is supposed to play the legislative role) have also been dragged to this controversy. The article has specifically referred toward the Mexican immigrants and the immigrants from the Middle East especially the war-torn countries.

The social structure the article talks about consist of the immigrants both inside and outside of the US. The authors argue that people are too sceptical of the immigration action plans proposed by President Trump. This is the reason why the immigrants living inside the US consider themselves under Radar of the state authorities and this is also resulting in the social inequalities among people living within the same community.

Not specifically, the authors have referred toward specific reason or any personality that should be held accountable for the recent mess created in the immigration policy domain. They have rather opined that the international security environment could have been the reason for the incumbent administration to opt for such security-related immigration action plan. The framing device of the article is academic, it has taken into account various reasons which conform to the academic input design into the policy domain. The article has also presented the debate which might affect the social setting anytime in the near future in the US. They have considered various reasons before putting forward their academic inputs about the immigration crisis in line with the cultural diversity in the US.

A thorough reading of the article suggests that the authors have taken into account the primary sources in their analysis of the policies. Since this matter has gone over to some kind of political nature, with the opponents of President critiquing his immigration policy, the authors have taken a much-unbiased approach. The article appears accurate according to the data presented and the facts that have been talked about. Therefore, the recommendations suggested by the authors appear believable.

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ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Pierce, Sarah, and Andrew Selee. “Immigration under Trump: A Review of Policy Shifts in the Year since the Election.” Migration Policy Institute, 2017.