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It’s like he came in with a very hardline anti-immigration agenda, ... and he intends to carry out that agenda in every possible realm of policy, in every possible way that he can.”
explains senior political reporter Joan E Greve
We don’t know what we are going to do,
said one distressed woman in Tijuana, where 400 people had previously been admitted through the San Diego border crossing daily by using the app
The president cannot, with a stroke of a pen, write the 14th Amendment out of existence, period,
said New Jersey Attorney-General Matt Platkin
If they reinstate it, this is something we don’t agree with,
Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Juan Ramon de la Fuente said in a press conference this week
ICE teams are out there as of today,
Trump’s border tsar, Tom Homan, told Fox NewsThe vast majority of immigrants are not criminals,
she saidI hope God touches his [Trump's] heart,
said Oralia, a Mexican woman who fled cartel violence in her home state along with her epileptic son
I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions,
Trump said in his inaugural address at the US Capitol earlier in the dayThis is déjà vu of the darkest kind,
said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge
I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places in which they came,
Trump said in his inauguration speech to thunderous applauseI am afraid for my children, that they will live the terror of not seeing their mother for a day, for a month, for a year,
said Erlinda, 45, who asked to be identified by first name only due to fears of being detainedThe Cartels functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States,
the order readsThis is a complaint that I have heard nobody raise,
he said
Since we are here, please let us in,
said Yaime Perez, a 27-year-old Cuban
All illegal aliens seeking entry into the United States should turn back now,
he wrotePlease, after all the work we have put in to get here, let us enter your country, so that we can better ourselves in life and be somebody,
she saidI'm fine with legal immigration. I like it. We need people, and I'm absolutely fine with it. We want to have it,
he saidThey’re not going to let you into the app, baby,
Mendez told her softly
Crossing beyond this point will result in arrest, prosecution, and possible application of force,
Offices could be heard saying ... in footage shared by KFOX14 News
This is an abuse of emergency powers for the same reason it was before, ... Emergency powers are not meant to address long-standing problems that Congress has the power to solve.”
Goitein says