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Trump Declaring Southern Border Emergency Among First-Day Moves

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Updated: Jan 20




President-elect Trump is signing executive orders on Monday declaring an emergency at the southern border and ordering the start of mass deportations of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, reports Politico.


That will be just part of an unprecedented flurry of actions by Trump on his first day in office. There are plans for Trump to sign executive orders throughout the day, including in the Capitol Rotunda, where he is being sworn in.


Trump will issue a slew of immigration-related orders as he looks to make good on his signature campaign promise. The national emergency declaration will allow him to unlock resources from the Defense Department to follow through on his promise to secure the border and launch his mass deportation plan.


Mass immigration raids are being discussed for the new administration's first few days. Potential targets are , Boston, Washington, D.C., Miami, Los Angeles, Denver, New York and San Antonio, reports the Wall street Journal.


He will direct agencies to begin the process of restoring “Remain in Mexico,” a policy from his first term that required asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their cases to be processed.


Trump go beyond President Biden’s June border crackdown, using 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to further restrict asylum. He will move to designate a series of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.


Trump has pledged to pardon some of the 1,600 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, possibly “within the first nine minutes” of his administration.


New "border czar" Tom Homan said the incoming administration is reconsidering whether to launch immigration raids in Chicago this week after preliminary details leaked out in news reports, the Washington Post reports.


“We’re looking at this leak and will make a decision based on this leak,” Homan said. “It’s unfortunate because anyone leaking law enforcement operations puts officers at greater risk.”


ICE has been planning a large operation in the Chicago area and other cities that would start after Inauguration Day and would bring in additional officers to ramp up arrests.


Homan said he did not know why Chicago “became a focus of attention.”


“ICE will start arresting public safety threats and national security threats on day one,” he said. “We’ll be arresting people across the country, uninhibited by any prior administration guidelines. Why Chicago was mentioned specifically, I don’t know.”


“This is nationwide thing,” he added. “We’re not sweeping neighborhoods. We have a targeted enforcement plan.”


Homan and other Trump aides say they want immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to once more fear arrest and choose to leave the country on their own, or “self-deport.”


The Wall Street Journal wrote that Homan said at a holiday party last month in Chicago that the administration would start raids “right here” and threatened to prosecute Mayor Brandon Johnson for harboring undocumented immigrants if he got in the way.


News of the coming raids leaked after the Chicago City Council decisively rejected an effort to allow city police to cooperate with immigration enforcement. “We intend to stand by and protect Chicago’s immigrant communities against threats from ICE,” Johnson said.



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