مجلة طبنـــة للدراسات العلمية الأكاديمية
Volume 8, Numéro 2, Pages 1784-1800
2025-12-19
Weaponizing The U.s.–mexico Border: Trump’s Use Of Executive Power To Dismantle Asylum Protections, 2017-2021
Authors : Badi Rima .
Abstract
This paper examines how Trump’s first administration weaponized executive power to undermine U.S. asylum protections, turning them into tools of political deterrence. The study utilizes the concept of “weaponization of borders” to analyze the link between rhetoric, policy, and practice. It also highlights significant measures including the Migrant Protection Protocols, transit bans, family separation under the Zero Tolerance policy, and Title 42 expulsions. It also examines how anti-immigrant rhetoric and security-based framing were turned into concrete executive actions that weakened protections under U.S. and international refugee law. A mixed-methods approach combines qualitative analysis of executive orders and policy documents with quantitative analysis of migration and asylum data. The findings indicate that these actions weakened legal protections, worsened humanitarian conditions, and limited access to asylum. The study concludes that the administration’s asylum policy represented a deliberate transition from humanitarian protection to deterrence, with lasting legal, humanitarian, and global ramifications for refugee protection.
Keywords
Asylum Policy, Executive Power, Weaponization of Borders, Deterrence, U.S.-Mexico Border, Trump’s First Administration
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