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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump, during a associated code to Congress, declared his medication has launched the "most sweeping borderline and migration crackdown successful American history."
Trump noted that the Laken Riley Act, the archetypal measure helium signed aft his reelection, mandated the detention of "dangerous transgression aliens" and utilized the calamity to underscore his migration policy. Riley's parent and sister were guests of grant astatine the address, drawing bipartisan applause.
The president said that a change successful leadership, not caller legislation, was the cardinal to controlling borderline crossings.
"The media and our friends successful the Democrat Party kept saying we needed caller authorities to unafraid the borderline — but it turned retired that each we truly needed was a caller president," Trump told Congress.
Beyond borderline enforcement, Trump projected a $5 cardinal "gold card" citizenship pathway for affluent investors, replacing the existing $1 cardinal capitalist visa program.
He said that much than 100 countries person akin programs, though some, including Spain and the U.K., person discontinued them owed to concerns astir lodging prices and security.
Trump called connected Congress to expedite borderline funding "without delay," targeting House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune for contiguous action.
“Joe Biden’s insane and precise unsafe unfastened borderline policies — they are present powerfully embedded successful our state but we are getting them retired and getting them retired fast,” Trump said, referring to migrants.
Trump besides signed an enforcement order renaming a nationalist wildlife refuge successful Texas successful grant of Jocelyn Nungaray, who was killed by migrants aft they crossed the borderline illegally.
NewsNation's Cassie Buchman and spouse The Hill contributed to this report.
