President Asset made a number of ambitious border security and immigration announcements on Monday, envisioning a sweeping overhaul of U.S. policy and likely fueling reluctance among Democrats and anti-immigration activists in the weeks and months to come .
Trump used his inaugural speech to outline his plans to fulfill his campaign promises to seal the southern border and launch a historic campaign of mass expulsions.
“First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will be stopped immediately,” Trump said moments after his inauguration. “And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens to the places from which they came.”
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Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States as his wife, Melania Trump, holds the Bible on January 20, 2025. (Morry Gash/Pool via REUTERS)
Fox News had anticipated Trump’s immigration measures, which include deploying the military to the border, ending Biden-era parole policies, restoring border wall construction and designating international cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Trump will also end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants, suspending refugee resettlement and creating a rapid deportation process that does not allow for asylum, officials told reporters.
Officials told reporters on a press call that Trump would sign an order clarifying the language of the 14th Amendment and stating that the federal government “will not automatically recognize birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens born in the United States.
Trump reiterated many of these promises in his speech.
President Trump speaks during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“We will reinstate my stay-in-Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch-and-release. And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country. As ordered that I signed today, we will also designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations,” he said.
“And in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign criminal gangs and networks that drive widespread criminality devastating on American soil, including in our cities and city centers.
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“As commander in chief, I have no greater responsibility than to defend our country against threats and invasions,” he said. “And that’s exactly what I’m going to do. We’ll do it at a level that no one has ever seen before.”
Trump has made combating illegal immigration, including mass deportation, a central theme of his 2024 campaign.
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Polls have shown that Americans view illegal immigration as a major issue in the 2024 elections, and some Democrats in Congress recently supported legislation requiring the detention of certain illegal immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Brooke Singman and Bill Melugin of Fox News contributed to this report.