President-elect Donald Trump plans to issue 10 executive orders related to immigration on Monday, including declaring a national emergency at the border, an incoming White House official said.
The executive orders will follow Trump’s promises on the campaign trail to issue mass deportations immediately after taking office.
Declaring a national emergency will allow the Department of Defense to deploy the military and the national guard to the border. Officials declined to elaborate on how many troops would be sent or the parameters of their actions, saying that it would be up to the Department of Defense to make those determinations.
The Trump administration also said it would end birthright citizenship, the right of children born in the U.S. to claim citizenship regardless of their parents’ immigration status.
The official said Trump intends to end the practice referred to as “catch and release.” Trump vowed in his first term to end the practice, but migrants were still released after crossing the border because of limits in ICE detention space.
The Trump administration will also reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy, which allowed Trump in his first term to keep migrants of all nationalities from crossing into the United States from Mexico until they had an appointment for asylum. The official did not detail whether that country had agreed to any terms on it.
The official also said they would continue building the border wall and suspend refugee resettlement for at least four months.
The administration also intends to target drug cartels and what it called migrant gangs, referring specifically to MS-13 and Tren de Aragua. They intend to designate them as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, according to the official, which would make it illegal to anyone to provide aid or collaborate with the groups.
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