Trump today expected to sign executive order for border wall; will also target sanctuary cities - Entrepreneur Generations

President Trump is expected today to sign executive orders "enabling construction of his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border," Jerry Markon, Robert Costa and Abigail Hauslohner report for The Washington Post. He also is expected to target "cities where local leaders refuse to hand over illegal immigrants for deportation, according to White House officials familiar with the decisions."

"The actions, part of a multi-day focus on immigration, are among an array of sweeping and immediate changes to the nation’s immigration system under consideration by the new president," reports the Post. "Officials are considering, but have not decided yet, whether to indefinitely shut down the program that allows refugees from war-torn Syria into the U.S. Trump may also put the entire refugee program for all countries on hold for four months, according to an administration official familiar with the options under discussion." (Post map: Sanctuary cities)

"This official said that Trump will also potentially bar for 30 days the issuance of U.S. visas to people from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen—all Muslim-majority countries—until new visa procedures are developed," reports the Post. "Residents from many of these places are already rarely granted U.S. visas. Trump may ask Department of Homeland Security and the director of National Intelligence to evaluate whether immigrants are being adequately screened for potential terrorist ties."

"Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will visit the U.S. next week to meet with Trump," reports the Post. "The Mexican government has said that it would not pay for Trump’s border wall despite Trump’s insistence that the country would provide funding at a later date. House Republicans have said they plan to fund the barrier, which some experts have estimated will cost more than $20 billion. But experts say the wall would face numerous obstacles, such as environmental and engineering problems and fights with ranchers and others who would resist giving up their land."

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