The Trump Administration's Plan For Immigration

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

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In his first moments as president, Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive actions targeting immigration. These include declaring a national emergency at the southern border and ending birthright citizenship.

The Trump administration also unveiled a plan to deploy as many as 200 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct raids targeting undocumented migrants in cities across the country this week. And a memo from the Department of Homeland Security gives immigration enforcement officials the ability to enter schools and places of worship.In 2022, 11 million people were living in the U.S. without legal status.

We go over what Trump's immigration policies will mean for them — and what the fight to make them law will look like.

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0:43.4	Donald Trump's first moves as president included a sweeping set of executive actions targeting immigration and border security.
0:54.5	As commander in chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats
1:00.0	and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to do. We will do it at a level that nobody's
1:07.3	ever seen before. The actions include in order to limit birthright citizenship,
1:12.1	the declaration of a national emergency at the southern border,
1:15.2	and the suspension of the U.S. refugee admissions program.
1:18.7	The executive actions signal the start of a crackdown on immigration
1:21.9	that Trump promised during his campaign.
1:24.4	The Office of Homeland Security Statistics estimates 11 million immigrants lived in the U.S.
1:29.6	without protected status on January 1st, 2022. After the break, we examine what Trump's executive
1:35.6	actions on immigration could mean for them. I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast,
1:40.5	where we get to the heart of the story. Stay with us. We've got a lot to get into.
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