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In early 2017, multiple web sites posted articles claiming that thousands of Muslims were deporting themselves from the United States due to the recent election of Donald Trump as president: Although all of these articles were published under sensationalized titles such as THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS ARE LEAVING USA BECAUSE TRUMP HAS WON, none of them presented any evidence documenting what their headlines proclaimed. As late as 4 February 2017, genuine news reports suggested only that some unspecified number of Muslims might be pondering leaving the United States due to the uncertainty caused by President Trump's (since suspended) executive order temporarily limiting entry to the U.S. by nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries: There have been some reports of hundreds (not thousands) of Muslims trying to cross into Canada from the U.S. since the election, but those persons were refugees from the Middle East who were not yet settled in the U.S. and feared their legal status might change, not members of the Muslim community already permanently residing in Michigan (or elsewhere in the U.S.). In fact. President Trump's executive order may have had the opposite effect, prompting some Muslims who might have otherwise left the United States to remain here: We found no verifiable reports documenting that thousands of Muslims had voluntarily left the U.S. immediately after, and specifically because of, the election of Donald Trump.
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