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Chapter 1: What happened during Trump's inauguration?
Big Monday in America. Amy Klobuchar kicked things off by subtweeting the incoming president.
So, as we inaugurate a new president and vice president, let us remember that the power of those in this room comes from the people.
President Trump was surrounded by his best tech bros, one of whom would later in the day do a few Sieg Heils. Thank you. After the speeches, the flags were raised at the White House in the Capitol building. R.I.P. R.I.P. Jimmy Carter.
Thank you, fellow citizens, and farewell.
And the president signed a bunch of executive orders, first at the arena. Could you imagine Biden doing this? I don't think so. And then back at the White House.
What is this one? Withdrawing from the World Health Organization.
Oh, that's a big one. Back in executive action on Today Explained.
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Chapter 2: What were the major executive actions taken by Trump?
The reality is many people are annoyed by my rise and believe that... We knew immigration orders were coming, Andrew, and come they did. Tell us about what Trump tried to do on day one to overhaul our immigration system.
I think the Trump team has the clearest idea of what they want to do on immigration than any other issue. This is one where Deputy White House Chief of Staff slash Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller is very clearly calling the shots and shooting for the moon.
All illegal entry will immediately be halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.
He is, in addition to restoring various policies from the first Trump administration, such as suspending refugee admissions that remain in Mexico, policy which has migrants have to stay in Mexico while their claims are being adjudicated. He also went much further in really aggressive and sweeping assertions of federal authority.
He declared that there was still a public health emergency, even though the pandemic is long kind of over or accepted as a part of life, depending on who you ask. But basically using that as an excuse to start like totally ignoring U.S. asylum law.
And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.
He said he would now order the military to make defending the borders part of their main mission, something that has not been done before. And he also issued an order saying, which he claimed would suspend birthright citizenship, which is the constitutional protected right of any child born in America to be an American citizen.
His team said, actually, we are not going to respect this anymore if both of a child's parents are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. They will not be citizens anymore. And so that applies to undocumented immigrants, but it also applies to visa holders, H-1B visa holders or student visa holders who have a child while in America.
Their children will not be American citizens unless one of the parents of the child is American. a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. This seems clearly unconstitutional. It's already been the subject of a lawsuit by the ACLU and many of Trump's other immigration orders and other orders will be the subject of lawsuits headed to the courts.
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