Here Are the Major Steps President Trump Took in 2025 to Tackle Immigration Reform
By C. Douglas Golden
January 4, 2026 at 7:30am
If 2025 was any indication, 2026 is going to be a banner year for immigration reform at the federal level.
Remember, when President Donald Trump took office in January of 2025, we’d seen tens of millions of illegal immigrants from all over the globe pour over our southern border. Venezuelan gangs were taking over apartment complexes in Colorado, Haitian migrants causing massive strife in Ohio, illegals who claimed asylum given court dates in the 2030s and paroled into the United States.
That began to end on day one of the Trump administration — and, thanks to these steps, we have projected negative net migration into the country in 2025.
It began, as the Daily Signal notes, with an executive order signed on the first day of the president’s second term declaring the illegal immigration situation an “emergency” and allowing him to deploy both military personnel and other resources to the southern border to fight the issue.
“In addition to the emergency declaration, Trump signed executive orders on his first day in office ending ‘catch and release’ at the border, reinstating the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, temporarily suspending processing of refugee applications, and more,” the Daily Signal noted.
https://www.westernjournal.com/major-steps-president-trump-took-2025-tackle-immigration-reform/
