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    These are the immigration and border priorities for Donald Trump’s second term

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    After defeating Vice President Kamala Harris, winning both the electoral college and the popular vote by wide margins, President-elect Donald Trump said he has a mandate from voters across the country to fulfill his campaign promises, especially on immigration and the border.

    “We have a country that needs help, and it needs it urgently,” he told supporters early Wednesday in his victory speech. “We are going to fix our borders; We are going to fix everything in our country. Tonight we made history for a reason.”

    Like Trump’s first term in the White House, which focused on immigration priorities like his signature border wall project, his next term will likely place a similar emphasis on these issues.

    From expanding deportation guidelines to further limiting 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 the history of the United States.”

    Removing undocumented immigrants has been a key part of Trump’s platform, but he has provided few details about how he would carry out mass deportations. The few details he has shared include using the National Guard and local law enforcement, such as police departments, to carry out his plans.

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

    It is estimated that there are 11 million immigrants living in the United States without documentation, according to 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 equates to approximately 1 in 12 total U.S. residents, and nearly 1 in 3 Latinos, at risk of deportation or family separation.” according to the report.

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

    Trump unveiled “Operation Aurora” at an Oct. 11 campaign rally in Aurora, Colorado, where he provided more details about how he planned to carry out the deportation of undocumented immigrants with gang ties.

    “I make this promise to you and I promise you that November 5, 2024 will be liberation day in the United States,” Trump told his supporters. “I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered.”

    To carry out his plans, Trump said he intended to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a law that allows the president to deport any noncitizen who is from a country with which the United States is at war. USA TODAY reported last month that Trump could possibly use the same authority that President Franklin Roosevelt deployed during World War II to detain people of Japanese, German and Italian descent.

    Other deportation plans include expelling “pro-Hamas radicals” to “make our university campuses safe and patriotic again,” according to the report. Trump campaign website.

    How would Trump crack down on the border?

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

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

    “They all stayed in Mexico until they were reviewed and whether they entered or not. Most of them didn’t qualify,” Trump said. “The last gaps in the wall were about to be sealed, when Kamala came in and dismantled every single one of Trump’s border policies and stopped all wall construction.”

    Curbing immigration at the southwest border remains an important part of Trump’s campaign and presidency. The president-elect has promised to “seal the border and stop the invasion of immigrants,” according to the Trump campaign. Agenda 47 Platform.

    Trump pledged to resume construction of the border wall, which was halted after losing the 2020 election. During his first administration, Trump pushed for the construction of approximately 450 miles of new barriers that 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 at a campaign stop in Prescott Valley, Arizona, where he accepted the endorsement of the National Border Patrol Council. The Border Patrol has had difficulty recruiting and retaining agents in recent years despite having funded positions available 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 that Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, held in Tucson.

    “I think it is achievable, but it has to be achieved through the right policies,” Del Cueto said. He criticized a similar plan the Harris campaign had announced to hire more agents.

    “If they’re going to hire more agents, just so they can sit in the processing centers and process faster, it doesn’t make any sense,” Del Cueto said.

    He noted that hiring more agents will become increasingly important as more agents begin to reach retirement age.

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

    These are the immigration legal processes that Trump wants to stop

    During his second term, Donald Trump has promised to end or drastically change many of the legal pathways established for migrants and refugees to reach the United States without having to illegally cross the US-Mexico border.

    “As President, I will immediately end the invasion of immigrants into the United States,” Trump posted on September 14 in a Social Truth message.

    That 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 figure since 1994.

    The president has the authority to set a limit on the number of vetted refugees who will be admitted into the country. When Trump took office in 2017, he lowered the ceilings year after year, until ending reaching a 40-year low in 2021 with only 11,400 refugee admissions that year.

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

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

    He has criticized the CHNV program, which allowed U.S. border officials to screen immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela and then fly them to the United States on parole. Trump claimed this amounted to a circumvention of immigration laws, criticized the flights and promised to end them immediately.

    Stephen Miller, his closest immigration advisor and author of many tough immigration policies, has attempted to limit the availability of legal visassuch as green cards, during the previous Trump administration. Reports indicate he could try 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. It hit a major roadblock when the U.S. Supreme Court blocked your attempts to undo the program in 2020 for procedural reasons.

    DACA has since been the subject of a federal lawsuit filed by Texas and other red states seeking to declare the program illegal. That case is before the 5 conservatives.th United States Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans and a The decision could come at any time..

    While Trump has not addressed the future of the 12-year-old DACA program during a second term, his past actions lead many recipients to believe that as president he will once again deport them.

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

    In 2020, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the high court’s four liberals to uphold DACA. But a potentially key difference this time is that the court’s ideological center has shifted markedly to the right.

    That 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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