Here are the 14 executive orders on immigration policy by Republican presidents:
• 1956. President Dwight Eisenhower allows 923 orphans to settle in the U.S.
• 1956-58. Eisenhower allows 31,915 Hungarian refugees to stay after Soviet invasion.
• 1959-72. Presidents Eisenhower through Richard Nixon let 621,403 Cuban exiles stay.
• 1977-82. Presidents Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, and Reagan, let 15,000 Ethiopians stay.
• 1981-87. President Reagan allow 7,000 Polish refugees stay after Soviet-led crackdown.
• 1987. President Reagan stops deportations for 200,000 Nicaraguan war refugees.
• 1987. President Reagan allows 100,000 children of non-citizens to stay who were not affected by the 1986 law he signed granting amnesty to 3 million immigrants.
• 1989. President Bush allows 80,000 Chinese students stay after Tianenmen Square, which he formalized a year later suspending deportations and granting work permits.
• 1989. President Bush allows 2,225 Indochinese and 5,000 Soviet refugees to stay.
• 1990. President Bush defers deportation of 1.5 million unauthorized spouses and children of people legalized under 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.
• 1991. President Bush allows 2,227 Kuwaiti refugees to stay after invasion by Iraq.
• 1992. Presidents Bush and Bill Clinton, a Democrat, allow 190,000 Salvadorans stay.
• 2006. President George W. Bush allows 1,574 Cuban doctors into the country.
• 2006. President George W. Bush allows 3,600 Liberians stay in the country.
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