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    Here are Donald Trump’s immigration and border priorities for his second term

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    After defeating Vice President Kamala Harris, winning the Electoral College and popular vote by a wide margin, President-elect Donald Trump said he had a mandate from voters across the country to keep his campaign promises, particularly on immigration and borders.

    “We have a country that needs help, and it really needs it,” he told supporters early Wednesday morning in his victory speech. “We will repair our borders; we will fix everything in our country. We made history for a reason tonight.

    Like Trump’s first term in the White House, which focused on immigration priorities such as his proposed border wall, his next term will likely emphasize these issues.

    From expanding deportation guidelines to further restricting access to asylum, here’s what President-elect Trump’s first day in the Oval Office could look like:

    Trump has repeatedly promised a mass deportation operation

    During the election campaign, Donald Trump called for “the largest deportation operation in American history.”

    Deporting undocumented immigrants is a core part of Trump’s agenda, but he has provided few details on how he would carry out mass deportations. The few details he shared include the use of the National Guard and local law enforcement, such as police departments, to carry out his plans.

    “If I thought things were getting out of hand, I would have no problem resorting to the military,” he told TIME magazine earlier this year.

    An estimated 11 million immigrants live in the United States without documentation. government estimates starting in 2022. A report published by FWD.us projects that nearly 28 million Americans, including 20 million Latinos, live in mixed-status households.

    “This represents approximately 1 in 12 U.S. residents, and nearly 1 in 3 Latinos, at risk of deportation or separation from their families,” according to the report.

    THE Estimates from the American Immigration Council that Trump’s plan would cost the United States more than $315 billion, which would represent approximately 2.3 million additional people released into the country by U.S. Customs and Border Protection between January 2023 and April 2024.

    Trump unveiled “Operation Aurora” during an Oct. 11 campaign stop in Aurora, Colorado, where he provided more details on how he planned to carry out the deportation of undocumented immigrants bound to gangs.

    “I make this promise and wish to you that November 5, 2024, will be Liberation Day in America,” Trump told his supporters. “I will save Aurora and all the invaded and conquered cities.”

    To carry out his plans, Trump said he intended to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a law that allows the president to expel any non-citizen from a country with which the states -United States are at war. THE UNITED STATES TODAY reported last month, Trump could potentially use the same authority that President Franklin Roosevelt deployed during World War II to arrest people of Japanese, German and Italian descent.

    Other expulsion plans include eliminating “pro-Hamas radicals” to “make our college campuses safe and patriotic again,” according to the Trump campaign website.

    How would Trump crack down on the border?

    Speaking at the Arizona-Mexico border in Cochise County in August 2024, Trump stressed the need for “strong borders” after four years of Biden policies.

    Trump listed accomplishments of his first term, such as partially ending catch-and-release and rolling out the controversial Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program.

    “Everyone stayed in Mexico until they were screened, and they either entered or they didn’t enter. Most of them were ineligible,” Trump said. “The last gaps in the wall were about to be filled, and then Kamala came in and dismantled all of Trump’s border policies and stopped all wall construction.”

    Reducing immigration at the southwest border has remained a major plank of Trump’s campaign and presidency. The president-elect promised to “seal the border and end the migrant invasion,” according to the Trump campaign. Agenda 47 Platform.

    Trump has pledged to resume construction of the border wall, which paused after his defeat in the 2020 election. During his first administration, Trump pushed for the construction of about 450 miles of new barriers, which cost about $11 billion set aside by Congress in 2019. Most of the construction replaced existing old fences.

    Trump also proposed adding 10,000 Border Patrol agents during a campaign stop in Prescott Valley, Arizona, where he accepted an endorsement from the National Border Patrol Council. The Border Patrol has struggled to hire and retain agents in recent years, despite having funded positions to fill.

    Art Del Cueto, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, shared some optimism in an October interview with The Arizona Republic at a campaign event hosted by Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio , in Tucson.

    “I think it’s achievable, but it has to be achieved through appropriate policies,” Del Cueto said. He criticized a similar plan announced by the Harris campaign to hire more operatives.

    “If they want to recruit more agents, just so they can sit in processing centers and process faster, that doesn’t make sense,” Del Cueto said.

    He emphasized that hiring more officers will become increasingly important as more officers begin to reach retirement age.

    Trump also repeatedly refused to answer whether he would resume family separations at the border.

    Here are the legal immigration processes Trump wants to slow down

    During his second term, Donald Trump pledged to end or radically change many legal pathways established for migrants and refugees to reach the United States without having to illegally cross the state border -United and Mexico.

    “As president, I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America,” Trump said in a September 14 statement. Social truth message.

    This includes well-established pathways such as the refugee resettlement process, which has been in place for decades. Last year, the US State Department resettled more than 100,000 refugeesthe highest number since 1994.

    The president has the power to set a cap on the number of selected refugees to be admitted into the country. When Trump took office in 2017, he lowered the caps year after year, eventually hit 40-year low in 2021 with only 11,400 refugee admissions that year.

    But Trump’s plans also include eliminating the humanitarian parole authority that allowed the Biden administration to process and release thousands of migrants into the country, under a so-called “catch and release” strategy. “.

    Trump has promised to end the CBP One phone app, which is the only legal avenue for asylum seekers to file their claims at border ports of entry. The Department of Homeland Security offers 1,450 appointments daily.

    He criticized the CHNV program, which allowed U.S. border officials to screen migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela and then conditionally enter them into the United States. Trump claimed it amounted to a circumvention of immigration laws, criticized the flights and pledged to end them immediately.

    Stephen Miller, his closest immigration adviser and author of many harsh immigration policies, attempted to limit the availability of legal visaslike green cards, under the previous Trump administration. Reports indicate he may attempt to limit further legal proceedings under a second Trump term.

    Will Trump finally succeed in ending DACA?

    During his first year as president in 2017, Trump unsuccessfully attempted to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. He ran into a major obstacle when the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his attempts to cancel the program in 2020 for procedural reasons.

    Since then, DACA has been the subject of a federal lawsuit filed by Texas and other Republican states to declare the program illegal. This matter is before the curator 5th United States Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans and a the decision could happen at any time.

    Although Trump has not addressed the future of the 12-year-old DACA program under a second term, his past actions lead many recipients to believe that as president he will once again target them in his sights of their expulsion.

    There are approximately 535,000 active DACA recipients living in the United States, including approximately 20,000 active recipients in Arizona.

    In 2020, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the high court’s four liberals to keep DACA in place. But one potentially key difference this time is that the Court’s ideological center has shifted sharply to the right.

    This means that even without Roberts’ support, there are enough conservative judges to end the program, if (and when) the Texas lawsuit challenging DACA reaches them.

    USA TODAY contributed to this story.

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