The issue at hand is that people are fleeing their homes and immigrating to the US without going through the formal immigration process. Based on UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is defined as “A person who is unable or unwilling to return to {their} home country because of a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’” (UNHCR). Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, an unprecedented change in the admission rate of refugees into the US has occurred. In 2017, the US settled less refugees than the rest of the world combined (American Immigration Council.) Since 2016…