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Trump Targets Immigrants

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Daily News, News

4.612.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In one of his first acts back in the White House, President Donald Trump signed a bunch of executive orders Monday to severely restrict immigration in the United States. He signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship, a move that's already prompted multiple lawsuits. He also declared a national emergency at the southern border, shut down a Biden-era mobile app to streamline the asylum process for migrants, brought back his 'Remain in Mexico' policy, and paused refugee resettlement, among other terrible things. Emily Green, a freelance reporter covering Latin America based in Mexico, explains the real-world effects of Trump's immigration orders.

And in headlines: Trump granted clemency to all of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik got her chance to flood Senators with vague platitudes during her confirmation hearing, and the Trump administration wastes no time firing people.

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, January 22nd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show welcoming you to the third day of Trump's second term, where everything's made up and the felonies don't matter.

0:18.3

On today's show, more fallout from Trump's decision to pardon almost all of the January 6th insurrectionists and commute the sentences of the rest.

0:26.3

And New York Congresswoman Elise Tophonic gets her chance to overwhelm senators with vague platitudes during her confirmation hearing.

0:32.8

It's a flood out there when it comes to news.

0:35.3

There are any number of terrible things that have

0:37.9

happened within the last 48 hours that we could lead the show with today. That is, unfortunately,

0:42.8

kind of President Donald Trump's way of doing business. Flood the zone with shit, as they say.

0:48.1

But today, we're going to focus on the many executive orders Trump signed Monday night to restrict

0:52.3

immigration, including an order to end

0:54.6

birthright citizenship in the U.S. We're the only country in the world that does this with

1:00.2

birthright, as you know, and it's just absolutely ridiculous, but, you know, we'll see.

1:06.2

We think we have very good growth. People have wanted to do this for decades.

1:13.0

Just as a quick fact check, other countries do have birthright citizenship, including both Canada

1:18.3

and Mexico.

1:19.6

But here's my question.

1:21.1

What's actually in the order?

1:23.1

Well, Trump wants to deny birthright citizenship to the future children of undocumented

1:27.2

immigrants, as well as future children of undocumented immigrants,

1:27.9

as well as the children of those who are here legally, but with only temporary status.

1:33.6

And he wants to do that by just waving a wand and reinterpreting the 14th Amendment,

1:38.4

the part of the Constitution where the century-old right lives.

1:41.7

The administration is already facing lawsuits for more than 20 states

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