Donald Trump is moving quickly since the election to transition into the presidency. He has been actively engaging with world leaders, assembling his team, and making it clear to certain individuals, such as Christopher Wray, that changes will be made come January 20th. Despite not yet residing in the White House, he is expected to do so soon. In the meantime, he has been staying at Mar-a-Lago, which is sometimes referred to as the Southern White House and likely offers a more comfortable environment.
On Sunday, President-elect (*Acting* president) Trump’s future press secretary Karoline Leavitt gave us some insights as to what orders the incoming president will issue on Day One – and it’s an ambitious list.
Leavitt joined Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” where she outlined what can be expected from Trump’s first day in office next month.
“He will use the power of his pen to deliver on many of the promises he made to the American people on the campaign trail to secure our southern border, to fast-track permits for fracking, for drilling, and to also take executive action to stop some of the transgender insanity that we have seen take over this country,” Leavitt said.
Host Maria Bartiromo pressed Leavitt on what immigration-related executive action Trump plans to take.
“Well, securing the southern border, perhaps looking at Title 42. Many of these executive actions are still being considered by our policy teams and also our lawyers,” she said.
This is encouraging; the Trump team is clearly setting priorities and making plans. The plan is obviously to hit it hard that first day and to keep the momentum up after that. A big part of the Day One plan appears to be on immigration, which was after all a major campaign item for Donald Trump.
As mentioned on the campaign trail, the president-elect plans to conduct a mass deportation of undocumented migrants, though experts are wondering if such an effort would be feasible and what the economic impacts would be.
“President Trump is also going to launch the largest mass deportation of illegal criminals in American history,” Leavitt said. “He can do that immediately by empowering federal and local law enforcement to work together to identify, to detain, and to deport these illegal criminals that we know are roaming freely in our country.”
The Executive branch indeed has broad powers over immigration and the border – not unlimited, mind you, but broad. President-elect Trump already has the right man to oversee this, that being new Border Czar Tom “The Hammer” Homan.
Any long-term fixes, though, will take legislation – such as ending the perfectly ridiculous idea of birthright citizenship applied so broadly that an illegal alien can take two steps into the United States and deliver a baby, which infant is immediately a U.S. citizen by dint of having been dropped on American magic dirt.
President Trump can, though, in his second term, and on that first day, start by repealing all of befuddled old Joe Biden’s executive orders – and that’s something worth doing in and of itself.
