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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump spent his archetypal week successful bureau bringing the U.S.-Mexico border to the nation's halfway stage.
Donald Trump's archetypal borderline actions
His archetypal actions included signing a slew of enforcement orders to curtail migration and deport unauthorized migrants already successful the country. One order, signed connected Day One, unopen down the CBP One app, canceling each outstanding appointments made by migrants seeking visas.
Others designated cartels arsenic foreign violent organizations, attempted to extremity birthright citizenship and shutter the U.S. exile program. Immigration officers are besides present permitted to participate delicate locations similar schools and churches to behaviour raids.
In his archetypal week, the 47th president deployed an archetypal 1,500 troops successful California and Texas, making bully connected his committedness to impact subject unit astatine the border.
Multiple deportations were carried retired via flight, immoderate of which were reportedly refused by Mexico. The White House has since claimed determination was a miscommunication and that Mexico has not refused immoderate of the flights.
Rep. Tony Gonzalez, R-Texas, confirmed that 80 Guatemalan nationals were deported by formation astatine Biggs Army Airfield successful his district.
ICE arrests much than 1,000 radical crossed US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids successful 10 large U.S. cities — including Boston, Denver, New York City and Newark — person led to the arrests of much than 1,300 migrants, Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan told NewsNation connected Thursday. Of those arrested, Homan said 1,000 person transgression records.
The fig of arrests successful the archetypal 3 days of Trump’s presidency represents astir 1.1% of full arrests made by ICE in FY2024.
Then, determination were astir 310 mean arrests per day. That mean is present astir 433 per time — a fig that volition apt grow.
NewsNation's Safia Samee Ali and Anna Kutz contributed to this report.
