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Preliminary Bibliography: Update to Immigration policy of Donald Trump
Origins and President Trump’s actions:

U.S. State Department. 2016. “Visa Waiver Program.” https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/visit/visa-waiver-program.html

-This lists the seven countries referenced in President Trump’s executive order. The list was first compiled by the Obama administration.

The White House: Office of the Press Secretary. 2017. “Executive Order: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/27/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states

The White House: Office of the Press Secretary. 2017. “Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/presidential-executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united

The White House: Office of the Press Secretary. 2017. “Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration

Enforcement Provisions.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/executive-order-border-security-and-immigration-enforcement-improvements

-Asylum officers placed on southern border security detail. I will find information concerning how this may affect legitimate asylum seekers.

-Seeks to end use of asylum policies to “prevent the removal of otherwise removable aliens”

The White House: Office of the Press Secretary. January 31, 2017. “Statement by Press Secretary Sean Spicer.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/31/statement-press-secretary-sean-spicer

I also plan to reference various Twitter posts the President has released.

Legal Challenge:

Reuters. February 3, 2017. “Seattle judge blocks immigration ban after Boston judge refused to extend stay.” Washington Post. http://nypost.com/2017/02/03/seattle-judge-blocks-immigration-ban-after-boston-judge-refused-to-extend-stay/

United States District Court for the Western district of Washington at Seattle. 2017. “Robart Order.” Contributed by David Gutman of The Seattle Times. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3446391-Robart-Order.html

-Explains U.S. District Judge Robart’s ruling blocking the executive order.

Critique of Asylum in the United States:
This article suffers primarily from poor editing. It contains several unnecessary elements, such as an explanation of critical reactions to a documentary film about Sudanese refugees. Furthermore, the "Film" section should be scrapped altogether, as it is poorly edited and seems more like a plug for the movie than an informative contribution. Some information, such as the qualifications used to determine legitimate claims to asylum, are included twice at different points in the article, revealing the need for streamlining. Discussions of relevant court cases are poorly handled, as one has its own section while others are included in the "Individual Application" section. Good editing would also help clear up some minor grammatical errors and improve word choice (example: changing "bars" to "criteria").

The article could be strengthened with a few additions. The "Character of refugee inflows and resettlement" section needs further elaboration and better statistical data. The table containing refugee quotas should updated so that it at least goes back to 2001 in order to encompass data prior to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, which led to a major shift in U.S. refugee policies. Finally, I plan to add information about refugee admissions based on preferred characteristics such as religion, class, and national origin. This will contribute to the article's usefulness by demonstrating how factors outside official qualifications affect adjudications of asylum claims.

Draft
Note: The content I have contributed or revised is all live in the non-refoulement article. To assess my contributions, please compare the article as-is to the archived page showing how it was before I added my content at this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Non-refoulement&oldid=760524908

For the sake of clarity, I contributed almost all of the "Relevant laws" section, all of the "Interpretations" section, and significantly revised the lead section.

Thanks!

-CJ

Practical on-refoulement has been a de facto principle of international law and custom prior to World War II.