Trump’s Day One Illegal Alien Crackdown Confronts Drug Cartels, Migrant Flights, and Open Border

President Donald Trump is expected to issue hundreds of Executive Orders on his first day in office, including several orders aimed at restoring order to America’s southern border with Mexico, combatting transnational criminal organizations, and reversing the Biden Administration’s immigration policies.

Of President Trump’s first-day Executive Orders, 11 will make sweeping changes to immigration enforcement, according to several news reports.

At an event for supporters Sunday night in Washington, D.C., Trump seemed to corroborate the claim that his Day One use of executive authority will be extensive.

“Oh, you’re gonna have a lot of fun tomorrow watching the news,” said Trump. “Someone said, ‘Sir, don’t sign so many in one day. Do it over weeks.’ I said, like h*ll we’re gonna do it over weeks. We’re gonna do it at the beginning. Tomorrow. And we’ll have plenty later on. It’s not going to stop.”

One of the most significant orders directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Defense (DOD) to immediately resume construction of the border wall and deploy personnel to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.

The order also terminates key Biden policies, including the use of the “CBP One” mobile phone app. That phone app, created by the Biden Administration, provided illegal aliens and aspiring asylum seekers with a high-tech means for entering the U.S. and exploiting the asylum system.

Trump’s order would also end the CHNV (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela) migrant flights program, which relocated migrants from all over Central America to cities and towns within the interior of the U.S.

The executive order also reinstates the “Remain in Mexico” policy, requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed in U.S. immigration courts. That policy is credited by many conservative immigration policy experts with greatly reducing the number of attempted illegal crossings. Biden repealed “Remain in Mexico” on his first day in office via an executive order.

Additionally, Trump’s directive ends catch-and-release practices, prioritizing detention and expedited removal procedures. Under the Biden administration, illegal aliens who encountered law enforcement after sneaking into the U.S. were typically released to await court hearings, a process that created a loophole regularly exploited by illegal aliens to remain permanently in the U.S.

In another sweeping move, Trump signed an order deploying U.S. troops to the border under the command of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM).

The order requires the Secretary of Defense is required to develop a unified command plan to integrate the military’s role in safeguarding U.S. territorial integrity.

Although previous presidents, including Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, have used the U.S. military as part of a broader border security effort, Trump’s order appears to be more significant. Rather than bolstering pre-existing federal border agencies, the order appears to place border security squarely within the purview of the Defense Department as a matter of national security.

Another high-profile order designates international cartels and gangs, including MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).

By invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Trump’s administration aims to expand the federal government’s ability to disrupt the operations of these organizations, impose sanctions, and freeze assets.

The order does not specifically mention the Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations that have proliferated throughout Maine as part of a black-market cannabis trafficking scheme.

While details of all 11 executive orders have not yet been released, Melugin and other immigration reporters have reported that the orders will be released throughout the day.