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    Trump signs orders on border wall, immigration enforcement

    Trump signs orders on border wall, immigration enforcement

    By Rafael Bernal - 01/25/17 02:06 PM EST



    President Trump on Wednesday signed two executive orders on immigration, including one that directs federal agencies to begin construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, his signature campaign promise.

    Trump signed the actions during a visit to the Department of Homeland Security as his aides met in the White House with two top Mexican cabinet officials, according to the Associated Press.

    One of the orders signed by Trump calls for the construction of “a large physical barrier on the southern border,” according to White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

    The other order deals with immigration enforcement and ends the "catch and release" policy that quickly returned border crossers back to Mexico instead of arresting and processing them for deportation. The policy was a fixture of the Bush administration and was later reinstated on an informal basis by former President Barack Obama.

    "Federal agents are going to unapologetically enforce the law, no ifs, ands or buts," Spicer said.

    The immigration actions also seek to withhold visas from countries to make sure they take back people in the U.S. illegally who are found to have broken U.S. laws. It would also strip federal grants from "sanctuary" cities and states that do not enforce federal immigration laws.

    "We're going to strip federal grant money from the sanctuary states and cities that harbor illegal immigrants," Spicer said.

    The president pledged during the 2016 campaign he would make Mexico pay for the border wall, which is meant to cut off the flow of drugs and illegal immigration, but now says the federal government will be “reimbursed at a later date.”

    "I'm just telling you there will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form. What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico. We want to have a very stable, very solid Mexico," Trump said Wednesday in an interview with ABC.

    At a press conference earlier this month, Trump said he didn’t want to wait “a year-and-a-half until I make my deal with Mexico” for work on the wall to begin.

    Trump added in the ABC interview that work on the project could begin within months.

    "As soon as we can, as soon as we can physically do it," he said. "I would say in months, yea. I would say in months — certainly planning is starting immediately."

    The construction of the wall is expected to be controversial, and is already drawing criticism for its potential human consequences and cost.

    Marielena Hincapie, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, called Trump's executive actions on immigration "incoherent and a monumental waste of taxpayer money."

    Paying for the wall is likely to be a top issue as Trump seeks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada.

    Mexico’s secretary of the economy, Ildefonso Guajardo, one of the attendants at Wednesday's White House meeting, warned Tuesday that a demand to pay for the wall would cause Mexico to withdraw from renegotiation talks on NAFTA.

    Estimates for the cost of the wall range from $8 billion to $25 billion dollars. While existing legislation authorizes the construction of border fencing, Trump will likely need to ask Congress for money this year.

    On the campaign trail, Trump initially suggested paying for the wall by taxing or impounding remittances — the money immigrants send to their families abroad. Some experts panned the idea, saying it would be legally impossible to single out Mexican remittances from those going to other countries.

    The construction of the wall is expected to face major challenges, given the terrain it would have to cover and the areas it would have to pass through.

    The U.S.-Mexico border goes through large metropolitan areas, such as El Paso-Ciudad Juarez and San Diego-Tijuana, which are largely walled off already; rural areas, including farms that in some cases straddle both sides of the border; and inhospitable wilderness, including national parks.

    Of the almost-2000 miles of border, 653 miles are already covered by a hodge-podge of fences mostly built since the late 1990s. Most of the fencing — 444 miles — was ordered built by the 2006 Secure Fence Act signed by President George W. Bush.

    Wednesday's executive order mandates new construction under the same Secure Fence Act.

    The Rio Grande forms a natural barrier along most of the eastern border region, leaving only the most remote and rugged areas exposed.

    While the number of border crossings has leveled off at around 400,000 a year since 2010 (hitting a low comparable to crossings in the 1970s) the number of Mexican nationals attempting to cross has continued to decrease.

    In fiscal 2014 and 2016, Mexican nationals accounted for less than half of all illicit border crossings.



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    Trump Immigration Orders Today

    1. Build The Wall
    2. End Catch and Release
    3. End Sanctuary Cities
    4. Withhold Federal Aid from Sanctuary Cities
    5. Hold Visas for Any Country Until They Take Their Deported Citizens Back

    Spicer: Enforce the Law, no ifs, ands or buts.
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    Love the fireworks, lorrie!!!

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    6. Halt all refugees coming from the 7 terrorist Nations.
    7. ALL border patrol and law enforcement have the authority to enforce our Immigration Laws
    8. Thank you DJT
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    Love the fireworks, lorrie!!!




    Thanks Judy!

    It's a day for grand celebration!
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    http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nati...128718809.html
    The immigration directives appear to be the most ambitious of a series of executive orders that the real estate mogul has signed since taking office Friday. The first directive, in addition, to ordering funds for the planning designing and construction of wall, also authorized the hiring of 5,000 more
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and tripling the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to intercept, track down and deport immigrants in the United States illegally.
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    Please don't overlook, our dear President Trump, acknowledging and authorizing by Executive Order, the rights of states and local law enforcement to enforce US immigration law. You need to add that as a specific authorization order from you. It may also need a Congressional bill, a little 1 paragraph bill, but I wouldn't wait for it. I'm confident states and local governments have their own reserved rights to states to protect themselves from foreign invasions and enforce our federal laws.

    We have over 800,000 sworn, trained, paid, equipped law enforcement officers on the state and local level. They can complete the deportation of 30 million illegal aliens in less than 2 years. The feds need to authorize deportation hearing courts all over the country like magistrate offices who do one thing, and one thing only, they review evidence of status, are you a citizen of the United States, yes or no, if no, do you have legal unexpired immigration documents to be here, yes or no, if no, out you go. They can verify this through E-Verify. ICE and USCIS needs to be able to verify one way or the other immediately. No sob stories. Find their families at the address you have upon their arrest, round them up, deport them as a single unit within 24 hours including minor children even if they were born here.

    We're not going to tolerate "backlogs". Any magistrate qualified to lock up Americans can and should be qualified to order a deportation of an illegal alien.
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    Mexico’s secretary of the economy, Ildefonso Guajardo, one of the attendants at Wednesday's White House meeting, warned Tuesday that a demand to pay for the wall would cause Mexico to withdraw from renegotiation talks on NAFTA.

    Mexico is the starting point of all our illegal immigration problems which is unrelated to the unfair Clinton money laundering NAFTA!

    I got news for Mexico...... You never negotiated with a natural born New Yorker. You must be smoking too much of that junk Mexican weed
    if you think threatening President Trump will make him melt at the knees and comply with your demands.

    The more you threat, the harder it will become for you and suggest you start re-thinking your plan before President Trump also makes you pay
    to build a wall on your Southern Border to stop the illegal migration through Mexico.



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    I just read that Nieto may cancel the meeting with Trump...LOL

    Dig a bigger hole for yourself...and jump right in!

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