Earthjustice Blasts Trump Immigration Executive Orders

January 20, 2025

Earthjustice Blasts Trump Immigration Executive Orders

"We stand with our partners in the immigrants' rights movement and the communities we represent to push back against an administration emboldened to launch even more repressive and extremist attacks."

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Geoffrey Nolan, [email protected]

San Francisco, CA-

Today, President Donald Trump issued numerous executive orders on immigration. The orders include the declaration of a so-called national emergency on immigration as well as various measures to increase deportations, expand detention, and attempt to end birthright citizenship. After President Trump signed the executive orders, Earthjustice President Abigail Dillenissued the following statement:

"President Trump's executive actions on immigration will upend communities, sow fear across this country, and result in widespread civil rights violations and humanitarian harms. We witnessed the devastation caused during Trump's first administration-from family separation and the detention of young children in makeshift prisons to attempts to dismantle the foundation of our asylum system. We stand with our partners in the immigrants' rights movement and the communities we represent to push back against an administration emboldened to launch even more repressive and extremist attacks."

President Donald Trump holds a letter to the U.N. stating the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images)

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