Trump shuts off access to asylum, plans to send 10,000 troops to border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The briefing document is an early glimpse into the practical application of the fusillade of executive orders Trump issued Monday, and their translation into field guidance for the Border Patrol's 19,000 agents.
56% : Border Patrol agents have been directed to hold any non-Mexican migrant for deportation via air, rather than attempting to return them to Mexico, the documents state.
55% : CBP is holding about 5,500 detainees who recently crossed the southern border at its stations and temporary sites.
55% : "Together, in coordination with our Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense teammates, we will detect, deter and interdict illegal migration, drug smuggling and other terrorist or hostile activity before it reaches our border," Lunday said in a statement.
52% : Trump on Monday signed an executive order giving the interior secretary 30 days to rename the area the Gulf of America.
51% : According to the CBP briefing documents, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to more than double its detention capacity by opening four new 10,000-bed facilities and 14 smaller sites with space for 700 to 1,000 people.
49% : Trump administration officials are carrying out his campaign promises at breakneck speed, directing the nation's most powerful agencies -- the Justice Department, Homeland Security and Defense -- to prioritize immigration and border enforcement.
46% : The Department of Defense may also utilize military bases as holding facilities, the document says.
46% : The Defense Department is expected to order at least 1,000 additional U.S. troops to the southern border in what could be the first of several waves of deployments to bolster security there under Trump, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the discussion who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue The officials said the personnel, including active-duty soldiers and Marines, will be added to the roughly 2,500 who already were deployed there under the Biden administration.
38% : The numbers roughly match a menu of options that defense officials have been assembling for weeks under the expectation that Trump would order more troops to the border, this official said.
36% : A separate executive order Trump issued Monday declared a national emergency at the southern border and instructed the Pentagon to support CBP by sending troops, drones and other assets, while resuming border wall construction.
22% : Trump officials have told lawmakers they will need billions of dollars in additional funding to meet the president's deportation goals by ramping up ICE detention capacity.

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