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Trump officials outline planned immigration crackdown • Tennessee Lookout

WASHINGTON – After taking office as the 47th president, Donald Trump signed dozens of executive orders late Monday to begin cracking down on immigration at the tropical border.

Trump officials detailed those orders in a call with reporters early Monday.

Among the most prominent orders Trump has signed National emergency declaration At the US-Mexico border.

“This action will allow for physical barriers by deploying the military, finishing walls along the border (Department of Homeland Security) and directing secretaries, allowing counter (unmanned aircraft systems) capabilities near the south. The next Trump official said he was speaking in the background: “More specifically, the Secretary of Defense will have additional personnel in the border crisis, including military members and the National Guard. I’m telling you to do that.”

Trump’s choice to implement his immigration plan, South Dakota Governor Christie Noem; Her confirmation hearing has been completed Last week, it could potentially receive a vote in the Senate in the coming days.

Trump’s Choice for Secretary of Defense, Fox News Personality Pete Hegset, Burned by the Senate During his confirmation hearing, Democrats are likely to be approved by the Republicans when his nomination is brought to the floor.

Emergency orders

The National Emergency Executive Order at the Tropical Border requires that DOD and DHS secretaries submit a joint report to the president within 90 days. It is necessary to obtain full operational control of the southern border, such as whether to invoke the Rebellion Act of 1807. ”

Rebellion Act of 1807 It grants the President the authority to deploy and use American troops domestically under certain conditions, such as domestic unrest such as civil disability and insurrections.

Another The executive order has ended Several forms of legal immigration, including the use of humanitarian parole programs for the citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. We have also stopped using one CBP app that allows immigrants to appoint as an asylum officer. The app was shut down within an hour of Trump’s inauguration.

Noem was noted at her confirmation hearing that the app will be suspended on Trump’s first day, but that DHS will maintain the collected data.

Approximately 1 million immigrants used the app to secure their plans. According to CBP data.

The ACLU submitted it later on Monday The District of Columbia U.S. District Court lawsuit over the Trump administration’s decision to terminate the CBP One app.

The same executive order revives policies from the first Trump administration, which remained in Mexican policies from the so-called Trump administration.

Under that order, asylum seekers were required to remain in Mexico – often in dangerous situations – their asylum cases were pending in court, which could even take months or years there is.

It also reinstated the so-called “catch and release” ban. This allows immigrants to detain from living in U.S. communities while immigration judges await an asylum case.

It also directs DHS secretaries to establish immigrants who “construct, operate, control or use removable, restrainable facilities.”

Military and border

Additionally, the executive order would clarify the role of the US military in protecting US territory, Trump officials said.

“What this action does is assign a mission to seal military borders and laboratory campaign planning requirements,” the official said. “The executive order has been made to the military with the integrity of borders and territorial lands and all of the illegal mass immigration, drug trafficking, drug trafficking, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, all of the things that are illegal mass immigration, drug trafficking, drug trafficking, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack It directs the military to prioritize US sovereignty over forms, territorial integrity, boundary and territorial integrity and strategic planning to maintain security. Other criminal acts.”

Trump also reinstated an executive order from his first administration, which issued guidance on immigration enforcement policies to focus on the removal of undocumented immigration. Biden administration The order was revoked in 2021.

Asylum, birthright citizenship

Some of the next administration’s actions could face immediate legal challenges. Officials said they plan to move to end the asylum (which is in US law) and that the 14th amendment will result in a positive birthright citizenship. 1898 US Supreme Court lawsuit.

“The federal government will not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for illegal foreign children born in the United States,” Trump officials said.

Trump admitted it Presidential order he signed Citizenship may face legal hurdles in relation to being born.

“I think we have a good basis,” Trump said in his oval office.

One of the executive orders signed by Trump designates cartel groups as global terrorists.

Another person suspends resettlement work for refugees for at least four months. It starts on January 27th. The US Refugee Resettlement Office will handle unaccompanied minors and help refugees settle in the US at their 2024 office Over 100,000 refugees have been resettled In the country.

Another presidential order Instructs the Attorney General to pursue capital crimes committed by people across the country without the murder of law enforcement officers and legal approval.

but, The White House said The Justice Department intends to seek the death penalty for “illicit immigrants who injure and kill Americans.”

“It’s about public safety, and it’s about the victims of the most violent and abusive criminals who have entered our country in our lifetime,” Trump officials said. . “And today is over.”

Last updated at 12:38pm, February 4, 2025