Trump Signs 2 Executive Orders on Immigration

Trump Signs 2 Executive Orders on Immigration
President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, signs his first executive order on health care, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan, 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The Associated Press
1/25/2017
Updated:
1/25/2017

President Donald Trump is signing two executive orders in keeping with campaign promises to boost border security and crack down on immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

The president signed the two orders Wednesday during a ceremony at the Department of Homeland Security after honoring the department’s newly confirmed secretary, retired Gen. John Kelly.

The executive orders jumpstart construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, one of his signature campaign promises, and strip funding for so-called sanctuary cities, which don’t arrest or detain immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.