Trump administration officials reportedly instructed U.S. border agents to immediately deport migrants crossing into the country illegally without allowing them to request legal protection.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed national security directives designed to overhaul U.S. border and immigration policy. Among the orders were designating international cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and restoring the “Remain in Mexico” policy, by which migrants remain south of the border until their immigration hearing.
Trump cited his constitutional powers over foreign affairs to empower U.S. immigration officials to “repel, repatriate, or remove any alien engaged in the invasion across the southern border of the United States,” according to internal government documents and agency officials, CBS News reported.
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