President Donald Trump signed multiple immigration executive orders upon arrival to the Oval Office Monday evening. He signed an order to attempt to end birthright citizenship, declared a national emergency at the country's southern border and suspended the refugee admissions program, amid a flurry of predicted immigration moves.
The orders include declaring a national emergency to deploy military personnel to the border, suspending refugee resettlement and ending birthright citizenship.
President Trump promises to crack down on illegal immigration. Jonah Kaplan investigates how our current deportation process works.
This legislation is the most significant immigration enforcement and border security related bill to pass the Senate in nearly three decades.
Whether local law enforcement agencies cooperate with federal immigration authorities will be be crucial to Trump's planned mass deportation.
Trump campaigned largely on the issue of immigration, promising to carry out mass deportations of roughly 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S.
Trump campaigned on border security promises, and he and his allies argue that his electoral win is an endorsement of his upcoming actions on the issue.
The Trump administration has planned “post-inauguration” immigration raids in Chicago and other sanctuary cities, according to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The potential raids have students preparing.
The ‘Laken Riley Act’ is named after the 22-year-old student who was killed on the University of Georgia campus by Venezuelan migrant José Antonio Ibarra last February. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), he allegedly entered the country illegally in 2022 and was charged with shoplifting but was not detained by ICE.
Las Vegas Metro police will not partake in mass deportation “roundups” as President Donald Trump lays out his immigration policies, Sheriff Kevin McMahill said in an exclusive interview.
The Department of Homeland Security issued two memos late Monday to repeal limits on federal immigration enforcement, and demanding a review on parole use.