Trump to Sign 10 Orders to Stop Migration and Close the Border
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January 20, 2025 Hour: 12:41 pm
He will also declare an emergency to promote energy production and order the government to recognize only two genders.
On Monday, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign 10 executive orders on immigration, including one aimed at “sealing” the border with Mexico through the deployment of military forces, and another to declare drug cartels as terrorist groups.
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In a call with journalists ahead of his inauguration on Monday at noon, Trump’s team outlined that immigration will be one of the key topics in his first decrees, which will also address issues of energy, foreign policy, and measures against the LGBTQ+ community.
Future White House officials explained that among the executive orders is a declaration of a national emergency, which will allow the Department of Defense to deploy active-duty military, National Guard reservists, and other personnel to the border.
Trump will order military forces to prioritize the “closure” of the border and the fight against irregular migration and drug trafficking. Another order aims to designate Mexican drug cartels and criminal gangs such as MS-13 and the Aragua Train as terrorist organizations.
Additionally, Trump will issue another executive order to reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” program, which required migrants and asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their paperwork to enter the U.S. was processed.
Officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, this program was implemented in January 2019 during Trump’s first term (2017-2021) and continued to be applied in the Joe Biden’s administration until it was eliminated in August 2022.
Another of the executive orders seeks to eliminate birthright citizenship for the children of irregular immigrants, a right protected by the Constitution, which stipulates that anyone born on U.S. soil automatically gains citizenship, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.
However, while Trump may issue an executive order on this topic, it is unclear what legal effects it would have, as modifying this principle could require a constitutional amendment, a much more complex process. The executive orders will also instruct the federal government to resume construction of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, one of Trump’s key campaign promises in 2016.
Trump will also declare a national emergency to promote energy production in the U.S., with measures aimed at increasing oil extraction in Alaska and reducing crude oil prices.
He will also sign an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” as he announced a few days ago in a press conference. However, the internationally recognized name of the Gulf of Mexico—a body of water between the coastlines of Mexico, the U.S., and Cuba—cannot be unilaterally changed by one country.
In another of the executive orders he will sign today, Trump will instruct the government to recognize only two genders—male and female—reversing protections for the transgender community that Biden enacted in areas such as sports and healthcare.
Trump and Republicans used transgender rights as an electoral weapon against Democrats in the presidential and congressional elections they won in November.
teleSUR/ JF Source: EFE