Trump begins immigration crackdown with Mexico border wall move

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Donald Trump is beginning tough action on immigration&comma; starting with steps to build his proposed wall along the US-Mexico border&comma; administration officials have said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The president is also expected to target so-called sanctuary cities and is reviewing proposals that would restrict the flow of refugees to the United States&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump is expected to sign the first actions &&num;8211&semi; including the measure to jump-start construction of the wall &&num;8211&semi; on Wednesday during a trip to the Department of Homeland Security&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Additional actions will be rolled out over the next few days&comma; according to one official&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump is said to still be considering the details of plans to restrict refugees coming to the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The current proposal includes at least a four-month halt on all refugee admissions&comma; as well as temporary ban on people coming from some Muslim-majority countries&comma; according to a representative of a public policy organisation that monitors refugee issues who was briefed on the details by a government official&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump tweeted last night that it would be a big day for national security&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He campaigned on pledges to tighten US immigration policies&comma; including beefing up border security and stemming the flow of refugees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He also called for halting entry to the US from Muslim countries&comma; but later shifted the policy to a focus on what he called &&num;8220&semi;extreme vetting&&num;8221&semi; for those coming from countries with terrorism ties&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While the specifics of Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s orders were unclear&comma; both administration officials said Wednesday&&num;8217&semi;s actions would focus in part on the president&&num;8217&semi;s plans to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He is also expected to move forward with plans to curb funding of cities that do not arrest or detain immigrants living in the US illegally&comma; which could cost individual jurisdictions millions of dollars&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s insistence that Mexico would pay for the wall was among his most popular proposals on the campaign trail&comma; sparking enthusiastic cheers at his raucous rallies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mexico has repeatedly said it will not pay for any border wall&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier this month Mr Trump said the building project would initially be paid for with a congressionally-approved spending bill and Mexico would eventually reimburse the US&comma; though he has not specified how he would guarantee payments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He will meet Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto at the White House next week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;IMG&lowbar;0380&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;IMG&lowbar;0380-1024x379&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"237" class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-104719" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In claiming authority to build a wall&comma; Mr Trump may rely on a 2006 law that authorised several hundred miles of fencing along the 2&comma;000-mile frontier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That bill led to the construction of about 700 miles of various kinds of fencing designed to block both vehicles and pedestrians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Secure Fence Act was signed by then-president George Bush and the majority of the fencing in Texas&comma; New Mexico&comma; Arizona and California was built before he left office&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The last remnants were completed after Barack Obama took office in 2009&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Trump administration must also adhere to a decades-old border treaty with Mexico that limits where and how structures can be built along the border&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 1970 treaty requires that structures cannot disrupt the flow of the rivers&comma; which define the US-Mexican border along Texas and 24 miles in Arizona&comma; according to The International Boundary and Water Commission&comma; a joint US-Mexican agency that administers the treaty&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It appeared as though the refugee restrictions were still to be finalised&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The person briefed on the proposals said they included a ban on entry to the US for at least 30 days from countries including Iran&comma; Iraq&comma; Libya&comma; Somalia&comma; Sudan and Yemen&comma; though the source warned that the details could still change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There is also likely to be an exception in the refugee stoppage for those fleeing religious persecution if their religion is a minority in their country&comma; which could cover Christians fleeing Muslim-majority nations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As president&comma; Mr Trump can use an executive order to halt refugee processing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>George Bush used that same power in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Refugee security vetting was reviewed and the process was restarted several months later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Other executive actions expected on Wednesday include bolstering border patrol agents and ending what Republicans have argued is a catch-and-release system at the border&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Currently&comma; some immigrants caught crossing the border illegally are given notices to report back to immigration officials at a later date&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s actions result in those caught being immediately jailed&comma; the administration would have to grapple with how to pay for prison space to detain everyone and what to do with children caught crossing the border with their parents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed5af5849f8">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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