Stora tråden om amerikansk inrikespolitik

An Arizona woman who has lived in the U.S. for more than two decades was arrested Wednesday night after her regular check-in with immigration officials and has been deported to Mexico. She was sent to Nogales, Mexico, on Thursday, reports Katherine Fritcke of member station KJZZ.

“We face the menace of rising crime and the threat of deadly terror,” Trump said, speaking shortly before Jeff Sessions was sworn in as attorney general. “I'm signing three executive actions today designed to restore safety in America.”

One would take aim at “criminal cartels,” while another would create a "task force on reducing violent crime,” Trump said. The third order would call on the Justice Department to start a program to prevent crime against law enforcement officers. Later on Wednesday, the White House made public the text of those three orders ahead of the daily press briefing. They were as Trump advertised, entitled "Enforcing federal law with respect to transnational criminal organizations and preventing international trafficking," "preventing violence against federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement officers" and the creation of a "task force on crime reduction and public safety," respectively.

“A new era of justice begins and it begins right now,” Trump said.

(f) pursue and support additional efforts to prevent the operational success of transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations within and beyond the United States, to include prosecution of ancillary criminal offenses, such as immigration fraud and visa fraud, and the seizure of the implements of such organizations and forfeiture of the proceeds of their criminal activity.

(f) review relevant Federal laws to determine existing ways in which to identify, interdict, and disrupt the activity of transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, and ascertain which statutory authorities, including provisions under the Immigration and Nationality Act, could be better enforced or amended to prevent foreign members of these organizations or their associates from obtaining entry into the United States and from exploiting the United States immigration system;

(d) following that review, and in coordination with other Federal agencies, as appropriate, make recommendations to the President for legislation to address the protection and safety of Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers, including, if warranted, legislation defining new crimes of violence and establishing new mandatory minimum sentences for existing crimes of violence against Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement officers, as well as for related crimes;

9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules against reinstating Trump's immigration executive order

Domstolen har inte fattat något beslut om den stora juridiska frågan - huruvida inreseförbudet strider mot landets konstitution. En sådan process ligger längre fram i tiden och dagens beslut slår fast att presidentordern inte ska träda i kraft i väntan på ett sådant beslut.