Since Trump’s election he has made many decisions that some people are not pleased with. Trump has changed things such as the size of national monuments and the immigration law. Some of the choices Trump has made have made people question if he is a good and wise president. President Donald Trump has been making tremendous decisions dealing with the size of the national monuments and immigration laws, which has made a large impact on the people of our country. Trump has changed the size of two national monuments in Utah. “Trump cut down the size of Bears Ears by 85 percent” (Turkewitz). Not only did he reduce the size of Bears Ears he cut down the Grand Staircase- Escalante by half of its size. Turkewitz states that “President Barack Obama created Bears Ears in 2016 and Bill Clinton made the Grand Staircase- Escalante in 1996”(Turkewitz). …show more content…
They think that this is a national monument and it should not be changed. They are not only being changed by a little bit, it is more than half of its size. Turkewitz states that Trump says “ Some people think that the natural resources of Utah should be controlled by a small handful of very distant bureaucrats located in Washington”(Turkewitz). What Trump is saying is that he has heard people talk about the natural resources of Utah being controlled by a small group of people. “Trump later states that he does not think that is a good idea. Trump would rather control the natural resources of Utah himself” (Turkewitz). Some native nations say that Trump decisions will destroy national land and threaten some 100,000 important landscapes. The decision Trump is making is set to change American land conservation, which means Bears Ears is not the only monument that could be altered (Turkewitz). The choice of this could open up places where people can mine. Trump’s decisions have made people wonder if this was a right choice for our president to