Trump Signs Executive Orders Focused on the Border and Energy

Trump's first-day executive orders focused on stricter border, energy, and immigration policies, including ending birthright citizenship, imposing tariffs, and eliminating climate regulations, despite facing legal challenges.

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*Source: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-lay-out-trade-visionbut-wont-impose-new-tariffs-yet-b9c8378d

On Trump’s first day of the second term, he signed executive orders to maintain border and energy policies. Moreover, Trump has made an effort in dissolving diversity programs, ending birthright citizenship, speeding deportations, and sealing the border. His new policies might face legal challenges because ending birthright for children born in the United States by mothers and fathers who entered the US illegally is a contentious political debate. The new signing might require a change in the Constitution, which is now plausible. Trump is being sued by an American Civil Liberties Union who advocates for immigration. Trump also decided to make it illegal for Mexican immigrants to come to the United States.

Trump banned TikTok and signed orders to cut regulations around energy production, which includes eliminating former President Joe Biden’s climate regulations on the usage of electric-vehicles. Trump is also placing a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada on Feb. 1st and is focusing on trade policies and economic relationships with China and North American neighbors. Moreover, Trump is ordering the elimination of programs that hire and promote people based on their race, and disability status. Trump is also very strict on policies regarding the determination of biological sex: according to him, a person’s sex should only be determined by reproductive organs not expressed gender.