WASHINGTON – After being inaugurated as the 47th president, Donald Trump signed dozens of executive orders tardy Monday that will begin his crackdown on immigration enforcement at the southern border.
Trump officials detailed those orders in a call with reporters early Monday.
Among the most prominent orders Trump signed was one Declaration of a national emergency on the US-Mexico border.
“What this action does is deploy military forces, establish physical barriers by directing the (Department of Defense) and (Department of Homeland Security) Secretaries to complete the wall along the border, and deploy countermeasures (Unmanned Aircraft System) near the South allows borders,” said a fresh Trump official about the background. “Furthermore, it specifically directs the Secretary of Defense to deploy additional personnel to the border crisis, including members of the Armed Forces and National Guard.”
Trump’s choice to implement his immigration plans, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, has completed her confirmation hearing last week and will likely be voted on in the Senate in the coming days.
Trump’s nominee for defense secretary is Fox News star Pete Hegseth. was grilled by the Senate He was chosen by Democrats during his confirmation hearing, but is expected to be embraced by Republicans when his nomination is announced.
Emergency order
The national emergency order at the southern border also requires the secretaries of the Department of Defense and DHS to submit a joint report to the president within 90 days “on the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations for further action,” if necessary to fully comply “to gain operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.”
The Insurrection Act of 1807 grants the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military domestically and to operate it against Americans under certain conditions, such as domestic disturbances such as riots or insurrections.
Another The executive order ended various forms of legal immigration, such as the operate of humanitarian parole programs for nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. It also stopped using the CBP One app, which allowed migrants to schedule appointments with asylum officers. The app was shut down within an hour of Trump’s inauguration.
Noem had indicated in her confirmation hearing that the app would be blocked on Trump’s first day in office, but that DHS would retain the data it collected.
Nearly 1 million migrants have used the app to make appointments, according to CBP data.
Later Monday, the ACLU filed a motion a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Trump administration’s decision to shut down the CBP One app.
The same executive order also restored policies from the first Trump administration, such as the so-called “Remain in Mexico” policy.
The order required asylum seekers to remain in Mexico, often in risky circumstances, while their asylum cases were pending in court, which could take months or even years.
It also reinstated a ban on so-called “catch and release,” which allows detained migrants to live in U.S. communities while they wait for their asylum cases to be heard by an immigration judge.
It also directs the Secretary of DHS to enter into contracts to establish, operate, control, or operate “facilities for the detention of removable” immigrants.
The military and the border
Additionally, the executive orders would clarify the U.S. military’s role in protecting U.S. territory, the Trump official said.
“This action imposes a mandate to seal our borders and imposes campaign planning requirements for the military,” the official said. “The executive order directs the military to prioritize our borders and territorial integrity and strategic planning for its operations to protect U.S. sovereignty, territorial integrity and security against all forms of invasion, including unlawful mass migration, drug trafficking, human smuggling, Assaults and assaults, maintaining other criminal activities.”
Trump also reinstated an executive order from his first administration that issued immigration enforcement guidelines that would focus on deporting undocumented immigrants. The Biden administration repealed this order in 2021.
Asylum, birthright
Some of the fresh administration’s policies are likely to face immediate legal challenges. Officials said they plan to eliminate asylum – something enshrined in U.S. law – as well as the birthright to citizenship guaranteed in the 14th Amendment and affirmed in a constitutional amendment 1898 US Supreme Court case.
“The federal government will not recognize the automatic birthright to citizenship for children of illegal immigrants born in the United States,” a Trump official said.
Trump admitted that the Executive order that he signed There could be legal hurdles regarding birthright citizenship.
“I think we have good reasons,” Trump said in the Oval Office.
One of the executive orders signed by Trump also refers to cartel groups as global terrorists.
Another will suspend refugee resettlement for at least four months, from January 27th. The US Office of Refugee Resettlement looks after unaccompanied minors and helps refugees settle in the USA. The office will be operational in the 2024 fiscal year over 100,000 refugees resettled in the country.
Another implementing regulation will direct the Attorney General to impose the death penalty – the death penalty – for the murder of police officers and capital crimes committed by people in the country without lawful authorization.
However, that is The White House stated that the Justice Department intends to seek the death penalty for “illegal migrants who maim and murder Americans.”
“This is about public safety, and this is about the victims of some of the most violent and abusive criminals we have seen in our country in our lifetime,” the Trump official said. “And it ends today.”
Last updated at 1:02 p.m., January 23, 2025
