As Soon As He Is Inaugurated, Trump Will Move To Clamp Down On Immigration

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Los Angeles Times -- Brian Bennett

Much of the task of unraveling Obama’s immigration protections and ratcheting up deportations will fall to Trump’s choice to run the Department of Homeland Security, retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, who oversaw the military’s counter-narcotics operations in Central America until early last year. Kelly is expected to be confirmed Friday.

“One of the effective things would be for Gen. Kelly to give his Border Patrol agents and ICE officers the clear go-ahead to start enforcing the law,”said Rosemary Jenks, vice president and director of government relations for NumbersUSA, a group that advocates for reduced immigration levels. “I think that’s an important message that has to go out as soon as Gen. Kelly is confirmed, because they have been waiting eight long years to get that order.”

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