Trumps Immigration Executive Orders: What to Know [Video]

Minutes after being sworn into office, President Donald Trump laid out a series of tough actions he’s taking to stop border crossings between ports of entry and begin deporting some of millions of people in the U.S. without authorization. Those policy changes were expected to start rolling in fast in the first hours and days of his second term after a campaign in which Trump vowed to launch the largest deportation operation in the country’s history.

Trump said Monday he would declare a national emergency at the border, which will free up military funding to build more sections of a border wall, support operations to stop border crossings, and “send troops” to the Southern Border to “repel the disastrous invasion of our country.”

“As Commander in Chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to …