Is Trump Keeping His Promises?

President Donald Trump is keeping his promises, and he described some of his actions at the Conservative Political Action Conference held just outside Washington, D.C. He deployed active-duty troops to guard the border and to “repel the invasion of our country.” Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell reported on Trump’s speech at CPAC. 

Trump said that on Day One, he ended “catch and release” at the border, reinstated the Remain in Mexico policy, and ended birthright citizenship.

Catch and release is a process the Biden administration used where it would catch people illegally crossing the border and release them into the United States rather than deporting them immediately. Remain in Mexico is a policy from the first Trump administration where immigrants seeking asylum in the United States apply for asylum and wait for a determination on their claim while staying in Mexico rather than coming to the United States and waiting here – a wait that can last for years….

Trump said he, too, could not stand seeing “people come in from jails, mental institutions, and the worst criminals on the street, gang members being dropped off in buses and bussed into our country.”

Deporting illegal immigrants is “liberating” to communities like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, “that have been occupied by illegal alien criminals from all over the world,” the president said.

“We’re rescuing the Americans whose jobs have been stolen, whose wages have been robbed, and whose way of life has been absolutely destroyed,” he said. “And under the Trump administration, our country will not be turned into a dumping ground. We’re not going to do it.”

Foreign countries are taking their illegal immigrants back, Trump said, including countries like Venezuela and Columbia, which originally refused.

Trump celebrated designating as a terrorist organization the violent Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua, which has been infiltrating the United States.