A bill to strictly limit two powers used by the Biden administration is getting a renewed push in Congress as the Trump administration narrows immigration programs.
Migrants who waited months to cross the U.S. border with Mexico learned their CBP One appointments had been canceled moments after Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
The president is making good on his campaign promise with attempts to beef up security at the border and limit immigration.
The orders include declaring a national emergency to deploy military personnel to the border, suspending refugee resettlement and ending birthright citizenship.
President Donald Trump has shut down the CBP One app, which was designed to help migrants apply to enter the U.S. legally as asylum-seekers.
President Donald Trump began his term by taking a series of sweeping immigration executive actions Monday that included declaring a national emergency at the US southern border, immediately ending use of a border app called CBP One that had allowed migrants to legally enter the United States,
Declaring illegal immigration a national emergency, Trump ordered the Pentagon to provide support for border wall construction
The executive orders will include deploying U.S. troops to the southern border, and ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.
Law enforcement agencies in Stockton and San Joaquin County said they would follow California law and would not help ICE with raids in the area.
The CBP One app has been highly popular, functioning as an online lottery system that grants appointments to 1,450 people daily at eight border crossings. These individuals enter the U.S. under immigration "parole," a presidential authority that Joe Biden has exercised more frequently than any other president since its creation in 1952.