Trump’s administration reinstates controversial measures, including 'Remain in Mexico' policy, and ends safeguards for “so-called ‘sensitive’ areas.”
The Department of Homeland Security issued two memos late Monday to repeal limits on federal immigration enforcement, and demanding a review on parole use.
In a press release, the directives were said to be "essential to ending the invasion of the US southern border and empower law enforcement to protect Americans."
Promises of an immigration crackdown by President Donald Trump through his election campaign are now underway.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told lawmakers that she intends to end the use of the CBP One on the first day the Trump administration.
Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to target schools and churches after President Donald Trump revoked a directive barring arrests in “sensitive” areas.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Department of Homeland Security secretary, vowed Friday to immediately halt the mobile app that lets migrants register to enter the US.
The Trump administration has reversed longstanding policies that limited immigration enforcement in sensitive locations such as schools and churches.
The Biden-Harris Administration abused the humanitarian parole program to indiscriminately allow 1.5 million migrants to enter our country,” DHS said.
The order for DHS employees to return to work falls in tandem with Trump’s mass deportation plan announced in his inaugural address Monday
Within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in as president, a federal phone app used to facilitate illegal entry into the country was terminated Monday.