Trump's Executive Order On Immigration--15 Very Expensive Actions to "Enhance Immigration Enforcement"
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 25, 2017, outlining a series of actions he directs the DHS, DOJ and related agencies to take in regards to internal enforcement of U.S. immigration law and to border security. Many of these actions are already part of federal law, but many others will require congressional approval and appropriation of funds to carry out. Much of what President Trump did today in this specific Executive Order (not the one on visa processing and refugees), will have an immediate impact on people's lives, but will not do anything to solve the problem of a broken immigration system. Here is what this Order does: 1. Calls for planning, designing and constructing a wall on our international border with Mexico. This will require extensive funding from Congress (e.g. the American Taxpayer) for the immediate cost of about $25 Billion Dollars (give or take a few billion). He also called for maintaining the wall (more billi...