Record / E-2026-0042
Merit-based immigration plan promised in a couple of weeks is not released
On July 31, 2020, Trump said of an immigration plan: It's merit-based. It's very powerfully merit-based, and we'll be releasing that over the next couple of weeks. So we're doing a health care plan. We're doing a immigration plan. No comprehensive immigration plan was released before the end of the term on January 20, 2021. This was the same appearance at which a reporter put to him the elapsed two-week deadline for the health care plan.
Context
This entry is marked verified_modified because the outcome is a sourced absence rather than a dated event: no comprehensive immigration plan appears in the record of the term. Executive actions on immigration were taken throughout the term, so a reader may argue about what would have counted as the plan described; what is documented here is that nothing matching the description was released in the stated window or afterward.
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Remarks in a Roundtable Discussion on COVID-19 Response and Storm Preparedness in Belleair, Florida
Remarks, July 31, 2020, American Presidency Project