President-elect Trump’s incoming press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s day one executive orders may tackle Title 42.
Leavitt joined Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” where she outlined what can be expected from Trump’s first day in office next month.
“He will use the power of his pen to deliver on many of the promises he made to the American people on the campaign trail to secure our southern border, to fast-track permits for fracking, for drilling, and to also take executive action to stop some of the transgender insanity that we have seen take over this country,” Leavitt said.
Host Maria Bartiromo pressed Leavitt on what immigration-related executive action Trump plans to take.
“Well, securing the southern border, perhaps looking at Title 42. Many of these executive actions are still being considered by our policy teams and also our lawyers,” she said.
Title 41 is a controversial Trump-era policy that allowed for asylum seekers to be expelled from the country. The policy was implemented in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It ended in May 2023 after the pandemic public health emergency officially came to an end. It came more than a year after the Biden administration first tried to rescind the order.
Potentially re-implementing Title 42 isn’t Trump’s only plan for immigration action.
As mentioned on the campaign trail, the president-elect plans to conduct a mass deportation of undocumented migrants, though experts are wondering if it's feasible and what the economic impacts would be.
“President Trump is also going to launch the largest mass deportation of illegal criminals in American history,” Leavitt said. “He can do that immediately by empowering federal and local law enforcement to work together to identify, to detain, and to deport these illegal criminals that we know are roaming freely in our country.”
