A wide-ranging series of steps that President Donald Trump has promised to take to beef up security at the southern border began taking effect soon after he was inaugurated Monday, making good on his defining political promise to crack down on immigration.
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00:00President Donald Trump has been signing a number of executive orders on his first day in office,
00:05something that he pledged he would do.
00:07And much of the action coming on day one and early in his term
00:11is expected to be focused around his signature issue of immigration.
00:15Here are some of what President Donald Trump has said he wants to do with executive orders on that issue.
00:20Much of the executive action on the U.S.-Mexico border is taken from Trump's first-term playbook.
00:26He said that he will declare a national emergency at the border,
00:29send U.S. troops to help support immigration agents, and restrict refugees and asylum.
00:35He's also pledged to restart a policy that forced asylum seekers to wait over the border in Mexico,
00:41but officials haven't said whether Mexico would accept migrants again.
00:45Trump is also promising to end birthright citizenship,
00:48but it's unclear how he'd do it since it's enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
00:53One thing Trump has already done is end the CPP-1 app,
00:57a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly one million immigrants.