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Fully KeptImmigration & Border Security

[On day one] suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 90%

Independently verified. As President, Trump held the executive authority to act unilaterally and did so, delivering both components of the promise. On Jan 27, 2017 (week one) he signed Executive Order 13769 suspending entry of nationals of seven terror-prone, Muslim-majority countries and mandating enhanced/'extreme' vetting standards (in-person interviews, uniform screening baseline, identity-document database). After courts enjoined the first two versions (EO 13769, EO 13780), he issued Presidential Proclamation 9645, which the Supreme Court UPHELD 5-4 in Trump v. Hawaii (June 26, 2018) as a lawful exercise of 8 U.S.C. 1182(f); the entry restrictions plus enhanced vetting remained in force through the end of his term until rescinded Jan 2021. Both substantive components were fully enacted and sustained. The only deviation is literal timing ('day one' vs. day 7), which is a minor bracketed framing detail, not the substance of the promise. Applying a party-neutral standard, an executive who unilaterally enacted a promised policy, defended it to a Supreme Court win, and kept it in force for the full term earns FULL regardless of party. Confidence held at 0.9 (not higher) to reflect the day-one timing deviation and the messy legal history in which the first two versions were enjoined before the surviving version differed somewhat in country list.

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