President Trump signs an executive order to end birthright citizenship, leading to potential legal challenges and mass deportations. The order also authorizes ICE raids on schools, hospitals, and churches, raising concerns about civil liberties. The administration plans to focus on 'sanctuary cities' and has cancelled the CBP One app, forcing thousands of asylum seekers to remain in Mexico.
has made a series of sweeping changes to immigration policy that will likely create chaos at the border and throughout the United States.President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. Birthright citizenship means anybody born in the United States is immediately a citizen.
Trump's Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were now allowed to raid schools, hospitals and churches to arrest suspected illegal migrants. CNN reported the deportations will begin with crackdowns in Washington DC, Denver and Chicago, all cities that voted heavily against Trump.One of the enduring images of Trump's first term was of children in cages, sleeping on the floors of large buildings.But ICE currently only has access to 40,000 detention beds.Migrants are locked in cages at a detention facility in McAllen, Texas.
Removing the app would require tens of thousands of migrants to stay in Mexico in a legal no-man's-land.
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