With Inauguration Day fast approaching, what will the first hours and days of the next Trump presidency look like?
Republican Senators were given a preview of the frenzy to come during a meeting this week where Trump advisors shared some of the President’s upcoming 100 executive orders ready to go. A lot of the emphasis seems to be on border security and tilting away from the chaos of the Biden administration, but there will doubtless be other areas addressed as well, according to Axios:
President-elect Trump and top advisers previewed ambitious plans for 100 executive orders during a meeting with Senate Republicans on Wednesday night, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: While Congress debates the next moves on their own aggressive legislative plans, Trump let them know he is ready to roll — especially on immigration.
Senators were given previews of some of what they were told would be 100 executive orders, two sources who were in the room told Axios.
As noted, border security is a top priority and one where the President can act unilaterally to reverse Biden’s open border policies within existing executive branch power:
One big border plan: Reinstating Title 42, according to multiple sources.
The pandemic-era public health policy cites concerns about spreading illness to allow for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the border — preventing them from even a shot at asylum.
There were millions of Title 42 expulsions from early in the COVID pandemic until President Biden ended the policy in 2023.
Other executive actions and plans that Miller outlined included:
More aggressively using a part of the Immigration and Nationality Act — 287(g) — which allows some state and local law enforcement to assist in some of the duties of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Building the border wall, constructing soft-sided facilities to hold migrants and implementing other asylum restrictions.
Trump pretty handily secured the border during his first term until Joe Biden hit the “Undo” button and opened the floodgates. Since that time, it’s been chaos, destruction, and death in some cases as a result of open border chaos.
On a related note, with a new immigration sheriff in town, even Democrats are being pushed kicking and screaming into supporting the Laken Riley Act which aims to deport violent illegal immigrants rather than house and coddle them:
The Senate is scheduled to vote Thursday to begin debate on the Laken Riley Act, a Republican-led bill aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration that has attracted significant support from Democrats.
Democrats are expected to provide enough votes to overcome the 60-vote threshold in the GOP-controlled Senate to advance the legislation. But some have suggested they want to amend the bill, so it’s unclear whether it will receive enough support for final passage.
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., said Thursday that he will vote “to begin floor debate on the Laken Riley Act because I believe the people of Georgia want their lawmakers in Washington to address the issues in this legislation.” But he didn’t say whether he would support final passage of the bill as written.
There’s nothing more to discuss. Democrats are on the side of American citizens or the side of violent illegals, there is no in-between:
The Laken Riley Act would change federal law to require ICE, operating under the Department of Homeland Security, to issue detainers and take custody of people in the country illegally over theft-related crimes, including shoplifting. It would target people who are charged, arrested or convicted for committing an act of “burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting.”
The legislation would also empower state attorneys general to sue the federal government for alleged failures of immigration enforcement “if the State or its residents experience harm, including financial harm in excess of $100.”
Democrats who vote against such legislation have put themselves in a position of blatant opposition toward the laws of the country they represent, not to mention the safety of the people they represent.
A few Democrats seem to get it, like Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman:
NEW: John Fetterman says if Democrats can’t get 7 votes in the Senate to pass the Laken Riley Act, then “that’s the reason why we lost."
“If you're here illegally and you're committing crimes, I don't know why anybody thinks that it's controversial, that they all need to go." pic.twitter.com/e0tDEK72uO
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 8, 2025
The Laken Riley Act will likely pass and coupled with Trump’s upcoming orders to secure the border, maybe the chaos will slowly recede from the dark days of the failed Biden presidency.
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