In his third day in office, President Donald Trump signed more executive orders aimed at shutting down the U.S. southern border to immigration and ramping up deportations — though large scale deportation raids had yet to materialize as of Wednesday afternoon.
President Trump’s first administration tried to implement a similarly sped-up process for removing unauthorized immigrants, but those efforts were hampered by federal courts.
State and local leaders across the country are bracing for a tidal wave of aggressive immigration policies and possible mass deportations that President Donald Trump has vowed to enact in the hours and days following his inauguration Monday.
The order will deploy 1,500 troops to build physical barriers, but they will not be used for law enforcement, a military official says.
President Donald Trump used executive order to Jan. 6 pardon rioters. He's also looking to lay off federal DEI workers, invest in Stargate artificial intelligence and make it easier to arrest migrants.
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The president issued several actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday kicked off his sweeping immigration crackdown, tasking the military with aiding border security, issuing a broad ban on asylum and taking steps to restrict citizenship for children born on American soil.
President Donald Trump on Monday kicked off his sweeping immigration crackdown, tasking the U.S. military with aiding border security, issuing a broad ban on asylum and taking steps to restrict citizenship for children born on U.
The Trump administration is ending use of a border app called CBP One that has allowed nearly 1 million people to legally enter the United States with eligibility to work.
Trump’s ascendancy to power again comes with some historical footnotes: He will become the first felon to serve as U.S. president, after his conviction last year on 34 criminal charges linked to falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 hush money payment to porn film star Stormy Daniels, although a judge declined to penalize him in any way.