Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, says President Donald Trump is starting from “square one” on the Kudlow border.
During his first week in office, President Donald Trump began cracking down on immigration with a number Border security measures. The effort is one of many campaign promises Trump has made since taking office on Monday.
One Republican lawmaker praised Trump for his immigration efforts and called out former President Joe Biden for leaving the border “open” for years.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, vows that Donald Trump has shown he's willing to deliver on campaign promises. “Kudlow” Thursday.
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“It also shows how unspeakable the inaction of the Biden administration has been. They've claimed over and over, we can't do this because of our national security.”
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After taking office, Trump signed executive orders that declared a national emergency at the border, deployed the military, and ended the use of the CBP One program to process immigrants at temporary humanitarian ports of entry.
His administration has also launched a mass deportation operation, with ice agents operating in several cities and states across the country.
Ministry of Homeland Security It has also issued Memos rescue restrictions placed on ICE by the Biden administration, and ordered a temporary review and expansion of the use of expedited removal for illegal immigrants recently entered into.
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In response to the question, Lee said that with his open borders, Biden has created a lot of problems with death, destruction, suffering and theft. So President Trump's right to start where he started, he said. Deportation operation.
“Our hope and expectation is that in some cases, some of these people will be sober enough to realize that it might make sense for them to leave on their own. For those who don't, they They find out the hard way.”
Texas Department of Public Safety's Chris Olivares discusses the border crisis under the Trump administration.
The Trump administration also wants to roll back the construction of the border wall and reinstate the Mexico Remain policy, which requires immigrants to stay in Mexico for the duration of their asylum.
Trump also signed an executive order ending legal citizenship for undocumented immigrants — a move that quickly sparked lawsuits from nearly Two dozen countries under democratic leadershipA federal judge in Seattle on Thursday temporarily blocked the president's citizenship order, calling it “clearly illegal.”
“Now that Donald Trump has to go back almost to the drawing board, as it happened,” Lee said.
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Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.