Incoming White House officials previewed a series of executive orders and actions aimed at immigration, border security, and the elimination of federal DEI programs.
Incoming White House officials on Inauguration Day morning previewed a series of executive orders and other actions they said the incoming Trump administration plans to take to address immigration and U.S. border issues. \'We will protect the American people against invasion,' one of the incoming officials said during a call with reporters. 'This is about national security. This is about public safety.
And this is about the victims of some of the most violent, abusive criminals we've seen enter our country in our lifetime. And it ends today.' Many of the proposed executive orders revealed on Monday's call require help from international partners like Mexico and would almost certainly spark legal battles. \The Trump administration is expected to take an aggressive approach to border and immigration enforcement, leaving many undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles concerned. Although one of the incoming officials said that the call would 'preview a series of actions to be taken today,' it was not clear from the call, during which officials took very few questions from reporters, that everything about which they spoke would actually happen Monday. \Declaring a national emergency at the southern border will be a key action. This will allow the Department of Defense (DoD) to deploy armed forces to the region and free up resources to build a wall and other barriers there, as he promised to do during his first administration. 'What this action does is it deploys armed forces, erects physical barriers by directing DoD and DHS secretaries to finish the wall along the border, and allows for counter-UAS capabilities near the southern border in addition,' an incoming White House official said. It's not totally clear what the official meant by 'counter-UAS capabilities,' but it is important to note that since at least the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has used drones and other UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) to help conduct surveillance of the southwest border. The secretary of defense will be directed to deploy armed troops as well as the National Guard to the border, according to the call. In response to a follow-up question, an incoming White House official was unable to say how many troops will be deployed, responding that the decision 'is going to be up to the secretary of defense.' This executive order aims to allow the military to 'prioritize our borders and territorial integrity,' an incoming White House official said during the call. The official further said that the order will direct the military to plan operations to maintain territorial integrity by 'repelling forms of invasion including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities.' In addition to creating federal and state partnerships to help enforce immigration policies and deportation priorities, this executive order would also aim to end the practice of 'catch and release,' and mandates building a wall along the southern U.S. border. Though often used pejoratively, 'catch and release' describes the practice of releasing undocumented immigrants after they've been processed at the U.S. border and while they await immigration hearings in court. The term originated during the George W. Bush administration and describes a practice that has been implemented during every administration since, including Donald Trump's first administration. Because it's logistically impossible to safely detain migrants indefinitely, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other authorities release some migrants into the community to wait out their legal proceedings. Remain in Mexico is a policy implemented during the first Trump administration that required some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico, rather than in the U.S., as their petitions were processed in U.S. courts. This action would require Mexico's cooperation, which incoming White House officials did not address during Monday's call. Trump also promised during his first presidential campaign to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and signed an executive order to that end days after assuming office. Few new sections of barrier along the border were erected during his administration, though many sections of damaged or outdated barriers were repaired or replaced
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