Demonstrators gather outside of John F. Kennedy International Airport airport in New York to protest shortly after former President Donald Trump's executive order blocking visitors from seven predominantly Muslim nations went into effect in January 2017. Trump is promising to implement even more extreme immigration policies if he wins another term in November.
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Demonstrators gather outside of John F. Kennedy International Airport airport in New York to protest shortly after former President Donald Trump's executive order blocking visitors from seven predominantly Muslim nations went into effect in January 2017. Trump is promising to implement even more extreme immigration policies if he wins another term in November. / Bloomberg via Getty Images

Immigration is one of the main things Americans will be voting on in November. And many are currently unhappy with the situation at the US Southern Border, which is widely described as a crisis.

As Donald Trump runs for another term, he's hoping to leverage that discontent just as he did in 2016.

An across the board crackdown on immigration was one of the signature policies of the Trump presidency. In a second term, he's promising to go even further.

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