It's below freezing in D.C., but Trump supporters are thrilled to be present

Los Angeles Times ^ | Jan. 20, 2025 7:23 AM PT | Faith E. Pinho, Seema Mehta, Hailey Branson-Potts

[E. Pluribus Unum]

• Trump said on his Truth Social platform that he planned to join the crowd at Capital One Arena for a modified presidential parade before finishing the day with a dizzying schedule of three inauguration balls.

The U.S. government will no longer recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to immigrants who lack legal status, one of 10 immigration-related executive orders President Donald Trump plans to sign Monday, an administration official told reporters.

The official did not provide details on how the administration planned to implement a change that scholars say would be illegal and quickly challenged. Trump’s order would reinterpret the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which grants citizenship to all people born on U.S. soil, and exclude babies born to parents illegally in the country. The changes would apply to future births, the official said.

Trump will issue other executive orders that will ramp up deportations, restart border wall construction and send U.S. troops to patrol the 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration for a call with reporters.

After Trump is inaugurated, he plans to declare a national emergency at the southern border. Trump will then issue orders to restart the “Remain in Mexico” policy of his first term, designate drug cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations and suspend refugee resettlement in the United States for at least four months, officials said, reading a list of Inauguration Day actions and orders.

The Trump transition team official who spoke with reporters said the new administration also plans to “end asylum” and quickly deport anyone who crosses the border illegally, work more expansively with state and local law enforcement to detain and deport migrants, and seek the death penalty for...

[DouglasKC]

He declared a national emergency on immigration and the border. I’m sure this would fall under that. Not sure what the legal challenges would be or how it would be different if there were no national emergency.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Too early to be party drinking in Hawaii or the west coast. Perhaps Floridans are having the most fun right now.

[CodeToad]

I’ve a got friend there with her daughter (husband and son are sick at home) and they are having the time of their life!