Inside Trump’s Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.
Trump ‘searching for disease to justify sealing off US-Mexico border’
Donald Trump reportedly intends to seal off the US-Mexican border by invoking a public health emergency. The president-elect’s advisers have spent months searching for a disease that will allow them to justify closing the border using emergency health powers, The New York Times reports.
Trump’s Plan to Shut Down Mexico Border Is His Most Dangerous Yet
Donald Trump, who sought to downplay the Covid-19 pandemic during his first term as president, is now trying to inflate the threat of a new disease in order to close the southern U.S. border. The New York Times reports that the president-elect’s advisers have spent months looking for something to justify declaring a public health emergency and shutting down the border.
How Trump Could Justify His Immigration Crackdown
President-elect Donald Trump is likely to justify his plans to seal off the border with Mexico by citing a public health emergency from immigrants bringing disease into the United States. Now he just has to find one.
Trump Team Searching for Disease to Justify Border Shutdown
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is reportedly planning to reimplement Title 42, a border restriction used to block migrants from entering the United States due to public health concerns—but are still searching for the right disease to justify the policy.
Trump 'searching for disease to justify closing US-Mexico border' and expel migrants on health grounds
Donald Trump is planning to seal off the US-Mexican border by invoking public health emergency powers, a report has claimed. The President-elect's advisers have spent months searching for diseases that would allow them to justify closing the border using Title 42,
Trump advisers hunt for disease to justify emergency border closure: report
President-elect Donald Trump's team is searching for a disease that they can use to declare a public health emergency to seal the border, reported The New York Times on Thursday. Specifically, Trump wants an excuse to invoke Section 265 of Title 42,
Migrants race against the clock to reach the US-Mexico border before Trump takes office
When Altagracia left Honduras to embark on the months-long journey to the US-Mexico border, she had two clear goals on her ...
Republicans look to revive Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ with new GOP trifecta
House Republicans are seeking to codify a Trump-era immigration policy that requires asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico until ...
Trump administration will close down the Darien Gap, incoming border czar Tom Homan says
In an interview with NBC News, Homan also acknowledged that people without criminal records may get caught up as "collateral ...
Mexico president trolls Trump with "Mexican America" map after his "Gulf of America" name change proposal
Mexico's president sarcastically said that the U.S. should be called "Mexican America" after Trump's vow to rename the Gulf ...
Migrant caravan heads to US before tougher immigration policy expected under Trump
Hundreds of migrants are traveling in a caravan through Mexico in hopes of reaching the U.S. southern border before President ...
Red state AGs welcome Trump crackdown on illegal immigration after four years battling Biden
Twenty Republican state attorneys general back Trump's impending immigration crackdown, criticizing Biden's policies for ...
Trump says he will rename the Gulf of Mexico. Can he do that?
The president-elect told reporters Tuesday that he wanted the body of water called the Gulf of America, but he provided no ...
Bracing for Trump, Mexico aims to roll out a ‘panic app’ for Mexican nationals being deported
Bracing for Trump and his threatened migrant roundups, Mexico aims to roll out a 'panic app' for Mexican nationals facing ...
Trump’s Day 1: Incoming president looks set to act on tariffs, crypto, energy and immigration
On his first day back in office, President-elect Donald Trump is planning to go big on executive orders and other actions, ...