How the Trump administration is setting the groundwork for mass deportations
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🗓️ 21 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Let's delve more now into President Trump's move specifically on immigration, including |
| 0:05.4 | executive orders to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented parents |
| 0:10.5 | and declare cartels terrorist organizations. |
| 0:13.7 | Our White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez has been tracking it all and joins us now. |
| 0:17.7 | So Laura, less than a day into Mr. Trump's presidency, we've already seen some |
| 0:22.4 | legal pushback to some of these immigration-related executive actions. What's the latest on that? |
| 0:28.5 | That's right, Omna. There are lawsuits filed already by the ACLU as well as 18 attorneys general |
| 0:36.0 | and Democratic-led states, specifically challenging that executive |
| 0:40.1 | order you just talked about that is attempting to end birthright citizenship for children of |
| 0:45.4 | undocumented parents who were born here in the United States. Many legal experts say that that |
| 0:50.0 | executive order directly defies the 14th Amendment. So far, there's no lawsuit yet against Donald Trump's other executive order that declares |
| 0:58.0 | a national emergency at the border, which would allow him to bypass some legal statutes |
| 1:03.0 | and use military and send troops to the border. |
| 1:06.6 | But sending military to the border is likely to also be fought in court. |
| 1:11.1 | And it could clash with an 1870s law that prohibits active military from being enforced, |
| 1:19.5 | from enforcing civilian laws. |
| 1:21.6 | And many of the immigration advocates that we spoke to today said that these lawsuits |
| 1:26.9 | are trying to slow down these |
| 1:29.8 | to get injunctions. And another thing we should point out on that birthright executive order, |
| 1:37.0 | Omna, is that many immigration lawyers, immigration advocates are concerned that it could not |
| 1:42.7 | just impact undocumented, |
| 1:45.0 | children of undocumented migrants born in the U.S., but also children who are born to parents |
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