Trump’s Assessment of His First 100 Hours: Immigration Highlights

Trump has released yet another announcement on his page of presidential actions–THE FIRST 100 HOURS: HISTORIC ACTION TO KICK OFF AMERICA’S GOLDEN AGE. Here are the immigration highlights (wonky indenting of bullet points in original):

President Donald Trump’s second term is off to an historic start.

The President is wasting no time delivering on the promises he made to the American people. The President signed more executive orders on his first day in office than any other president in history.

Within the first 100 hours of his second administration, President Trump taken hundreds of executive actions to secure the border, deport criminal illegal immigrants, unleash American prosperity, lower costs, increase government transparency, and reinstitute merit-based hiring in the federal government….

• President Trump is already securing the border and arresting criminal illegal immigrants.
• The Border Patrol is reporting a significant drop already in attempted illegal crossings.
• Fox News: “The U.S. southern border has seen a sharp drop in illegal immigrant encounters in the first days of the Trump administration, compared to the final few days of the Biden administration.”
  • ICE is at work rounding up criminal aliens.
    • Fox News: “Information obtained by Fox News Digital, shows that between midnight Jan. 21 and 9 a.m. Jan 22, a 33-hour period, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants that include criminal histories of sexual assault, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, drugs and weapons offenses, resisting arrest and domestic violence.”
    • Breitbart News: “President Donald Trump’s administration arrested 538 illegal aliens on Thursday, ranging from child predators to gang members and a suspected terrorist.”
• The Trump Administration immediately shut down the CBP One app, which “paroled” over 1 million illegal immigrants.
• Deportation flights have already started and the military is assisting with the effort.
• The Department of Homeland Security reinstated official use of the term “illegal alien” over “undocumented noncitizen,” and the DOJ announced it would be taking action against lawless sanctuary city policies.
• President Donald Trump signed an executive order to designate the cartels as terrorist organizations. ….
  

These opening few days can be summarized as Promises Made, Promises Kept:….

• President Donald Trump said he would use the military to secure the border. The Pentagon is deploying troops to the border and the Coast Guard is surging assets to the Gulf of America…..

-KitJ