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- Author,Christal Hayes & Phil McCausland
- Role,BBC News
- 21 January 2025
Donald Trump don issue several executive orders on everything from immigration, climate to pardons after e dey sworn in as di 47th president of United States.
For di White House, di Republican quickly begin use im new powers to sign off executive actions, presidential memorandums and executive orders ontop some policy priorities.
Executive orders carry di weight of law, but e fit dey overturned by presidents after or courts. Many fit face legal challenges.
Dis na some of di many policy changes wey Trump sign within hours after e dey sworn into office.
Immigration
National emergency for di border
For di Oval Office, Trump sign a directive to declare a national emergency for di southern border. “Dat na big one,” Trump tok as e add im signature.
E also target automatic citizenship for US-born children of immigrants for di country illegally.
Trump also sign order wey dey set to suspend US refugee resettlement programme for four months, though di details no too clear.
Closing di border
Trump ordere di military to “seal di borders” and cite di flow of illicit drugs, human smuggling and crime relating to crossings.
Terrorism designation for gangs and cartels
Di president sign directive wey name drug cartels and international gangs as foreign terrorist organisations. Salvadoran migrant gang MS-13 and Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua go dey added to a list wey include al-Qaeda, the so-called Islamic State and Hamas.
Resume wall-building
As part of im emergency declaration for di southern border, Trump direct agency chiefs to relaunch efforts to “construct additional physical barriers along di southern border”. Dis directive no be executive order and e no dey clear how such effort go dey funded, na key hurdle for Trump during im first term.
Wen Trump bin first dey elected president for 2016, e sign one executive order to build a border wall. Although dem build some parts of barrier, dem leave most uncompleted.
‘Remain in Mexico’
Trump also re-implement im “Remain in Mexico” policy in a day-one executive order. Measure from im first term, e return about 70,000 non-Mexican asylum seekers across di border to wait hearings.
Migration policy
For di same order, Trump also shut down one major Biden-era immigration pipeline: wey be sponsorship initiative wey allow up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to fly to US.
Dis policy, wey dey known as CHNV, bin dey designed to lower illegal border crossings, Biden administration bin tok.
Death penalty for certain immigrant criminals
Trump sign executive order wey bring back death penalty. Di order include pipo wey di penalty go dey used on and include any “capital crime wey dey committed by an alien illegally present in dis country” and anyone wey dey convicted of murdering a law-enforcement officer.
Deportations
Trump issue executive order ending di practice of “catch and release”, policy wey allow migrants to live for US communities while dem dey wait their hearings.
E don promise before to “launch di largest deportation program in American history” and end a long-time policy wey don keep federal immigration authorities from conducting raids on churches and schools.
Im immigration promise dem fit face legal and logistical challenges.
