President Trump issued a series of executive orders on Monday, marking the start of his presidency with a strong reversal of existing policies on issues such as immigration, the environment, and diversity initiatives. These actions aimed to overturn many of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s significant domestic policies, primarily on climate and immigration, while also re-launching a Trump agenda that would involve drilling and mining on natural resources and fundamentally altering the United States’ global role as a sanctuary for refugees and immigrants. In a speech on Monday evening, Mr. Trump announced that he was also repealing nearly 80 ‘disruptive and radical executive actions’ of the previous administration, including directives to rebuild the refugee program and gradually end the use of private prisons by the Justice Department. Some of Mr. Trump’s orders are likely to face legal challenges, while others are largely symbolic. Taken together, they represent his intention to sharply shift away from the direction of the Biden administration and fulfill his campaign promises to break what he and his aides describe as a ‘deep state’ effort to thwart his agenda. Among the orders Mr. Trump signed on his first day in office were: freezing federal hiring except for military personnel or ‘positions related to immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety’; restoring a category of federal workers known as Schedule F, which would lack the same job protections as career civil servants; halting the implementation of new federal rules until Trump administration appointees can review them; reviewing the investigative actions of the Biden administration to correct past misconduct by the federal government related to the weaponization of law enforcement and the intelligence community; granting top-secret security clearances to White House staff without going through traditional vetting procedures; ending remote work policies and ordering federal workers back to the office full-time. In terms of immigration and border issues, President Trump announced a ban on asylum for new arrivals at the southern border and a move to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. President Trump also declared a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border, allowing him to unilaterally release federal funding for border wall construction without Congress’s approval for stricter enforcement measures. President Trump also considered designating cartels as ‘foreign terrorist organizations’.
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