Executive Order 14159: “Protecting the American People Against Invasion” 

McAllen, TX (August 12, 2021) Home­land Secu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Ale­jan­dro May­orkas, along with Bor­der Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, attends a morn­ing muster at McAllen Bor­der Patrol Sta­tion. DHS Pho­to by Ben­jamin Applebaum/Released.

This order states that the admin­is­tra­tion of for­mer Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden facil­i­tat­ed an “unprece­dent­ed flood of ille­gal immi­gra­tion into the Unit­ed States.” It pledged to ful­ly enforce immi­gra­tion laws against those with­out legal sta­tus, par­tic­u­lar­ly those who pose a threat to the safe­ty of Amer­i­cans. Trump revoked four exec­u­tive orders regard­ing immi­gra­tion that Biden signed on his first day in office, Jan. 20, 2021. The aim of these orders was to facil­i­tate immi­grants’ set­tle­ments into the U.S. In Trump’s exec­u­tive order, he stat­ed that “sanc­tu­ary” juris­dic­tions, which includes Con­necti­cut, would lose access to fed­er­al funds for not coop­er­at­ing with the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment in immi­gra­tion enforce­ment.   

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