When President-elect Trump enters the Oval Office in January 2025, he will likely transform the way the United States conducts immigration policy – ​​with a historic deportation operation, a crackdown on foreign gangs, an end to the widespread use of parole to allow the entry of migrants and the resumption of construction of the border wall. at the top of his agenda.

“We are going to fix our borders,” Trump said Wednesday as he declared victory. “We are going to make everything right in our country, and tonight we made history for a reason.”

Trump made immigration and the end of the crisis southern border a central part of his campaign, as he did during his initial bid for the White House in 2016.

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Former President Trump speaks at the U.S.-Mexico border on August 22, 2024, south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

These calls have been fueled in part by a historic crisis at the border that exploded under President Biden’s leadership and just months after Trump left office. While the Biden administration has placed blame on a lack of funding and a broken immigration system, Trump and his Republican allies have instead pointed to the administration’s rollback of Trump-era policies.

Whatever the cause, millions of migrants have flocked to the United States as their numbers skyrocketed in 2021 and remained at record levels through 2022 and 2023. That number dropped sharply in June after that Biden restricted entries into the United States, although migrants continued to enter the United States through broad use of humanitarian parole.

Although numbers are now down at the border, 2024 has seen a series of high-profile crimes committed by illegal immigrants, some of whom have been allowed into the United States under the administration.

Trump has made clear his intention to change the weather, promising during his campaign to end “any open border policies of the Biden administration.”

Trump says he will lead “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history” if elected.

He promised to continue building the wall on the southern border, more than 450 miles of which were built under his first administration. He also promised to launch the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history” to remove millions of illegal immigrants.

“Following the Eisenhower model, we will conduct the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” Trump said.

He also promised to shift huge swathes of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement and will invoke the Extraterrestrial Enemies Act to target cartel members and members of violent gangs like the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua.

He declared last month in Auroro, Colorado, that Election Day would be known as “Liberation Day” for the United States from foreign occupation.

The US-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Arizona on December 8, 2023. (Valérie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)

“We are occupied by a criminal force and we are an occupied state that refuses to let our great law enforcement do the job that they so want to do,” he said in Aurora. “But to everyone here in Colorado and across our country, I make this pledge and wish that November 5, 2024, will be Liberation Day in America.”

In terms of actions taken by the Biden administration, a future Trump administration will likely scale back the broad use of humanitarian parole that has allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to be brought in using the CBP One app – both at ports of entry and through a controversial system. travel authorization program for nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela which authorized 30,000 each month from these countries,

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Republicans also called for stricter use of temporary protected status, which grants foreign nationals from certain countries protection from deportation and a work permit if it is deemed unsafe for them to return.

The new administration will likely end the Biden administration’s domestic limits on ICE enforcement, limit refugee admissions and reinstate its public charge rule — which limited the ability of immigrants to apply for green cards if they are considered likely to depend on social assistance.

Other Trump-era policies that could return include a form of the Remain in Mexico policy, under which migrants remain in Mexico while their asylum cases are heard, and a ban on travel from countries considered to be a threat to national security.

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Last week, Trump also raised the possibility of imposing tariffs on Mexican products to force Mexico to more closely control the numbers coming from the north.

“I will inform (the Mexican president) on or before day one that if they do not stop this attack of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I will immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything that ‘They send to the United States of America,’ he said.

Separately, it is unclear whether Trump’s election will deter migrants from attempting to enter the United States, or whether it could trigger a final wave of entry attempts before he takes office in January.