Trump eviscerates Obama’s immigration policy in two executive orders

With a couple strokes of his pen, President Trump wiped out almost all of President Obama’s immigration policies Wednesday, laying the groundwork for his own border wall, unleashing immigration agents to enforce the law and punishing sanctuary cities who try to thwart his deportation surge.

Left untouched, for now, is the 2012 deportation amnesty for so-called Dreamers.

But most of the other policies, including Mr. Obama’s “priorities” protecting almost all illegal immigrants from deportation, are gone...

He also called for tripling the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — his promised “deportation force” — to go after illegal [alien] immigrants in the interior.

Mr. Trump doesn’t break new legal ground, but instead pushes immigration agents to flex the tools Congress has already given them over the years to enforce existing laws...

Mr. Trump signed two executive orders. One deals with the border, while the other encourages interior enforcement...

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