If they were to materialize, these measures would undoubtedly promise strong challenges in court. Some of them even appear to violate the US Constitution.
Offensive anti-immigration
Promised during his electoral campaign, Donald Trump’s vast anti-immigration offensive took shape in his midday inauguration speech.
“I am going to declare a state of emergency at our southern border” with Mexico, announced the Republican president, barely invested. “All illegal entries will be stopped immediately and we will begin sending millions and millions of criminal aliens back to where they came from.”
“I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country,” he insisted.
According to an official of his future administration, Donald Trump also wants to put an end to the right to asylum and land rights, and to resume construction of the border wall with Mexico.
First concrete effect on Monday: the asylum application platform launched by the Biden administration stopped working. “Existing appointments have been canceled,” the service indicates on its website.
New exit from the Paris climate agreement
For the second time, the United States, the world’s second largest polluter behind China, will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, according to the new administration. A decision that jeopardizes global efforts to combat climate change.
The United States had already briefly left the international agreement during the first mandate of the American billionaire, before Joe Biden marked their return.
In his inauguration speech, Donald Trump also announced that he would decree a state of “energy emergency” to boost hydrocarbon production in the United States, already the world’s leading producer, and reduce energy costs. energy.
“We will drill at all costs,” he repeated, a formula that has become one of his campaign slogans (“We will drill, baby, drill”).
“Retake” the Panama Canal
“We are going to take back” the Panama Canal, launched the new president.
-Built by the United States and inaugurated in 1914, its control was transferred to Panama in 1999, after an agreement made in 1977 by the then American president, Jimmy Carter. “A senseless gift that should never have been given,” blasted Donald Trump.
“The objective of our agreement and the spirit of our treaty have been totally violated, he affirmed. American ships are seriously overtaxed and are not treated fairly (…) And above all, China exploits the Panama Canal, and we didn’t give it to China. And we’re going to take it back.”
“The canal belongs and will continue to belong to Panama,” replied Panamanian President José Raul Mulino.
Customs duties
“We will impose customs duties and taxes on foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” Donald Trump promised again.
The 47th President of the United States pledged to “immediately begin overhauling our trade system to protect American families and workers.”
Donald Trump did not specify his intentions in his inauguration speech but during his electoral campaign, he affirmed that he would introduce customs duties of 25% on imports from neighboring Mexico and Canada. He had also threatened to significantly raise those on Chinese products.
Gender issues
“End the transgender madness” was another of his campaign pledges.
“From today, the official policy of the United States government will be to say that there are only two sexes, male and female,” defined at birth, Donald Trump said on Monday, whose The team has promised several executive orders to stop federal aid for transgender people.
One of the concrete consequences of this policy will be to remove the gender “X”, neither masculine nor feminine, for people recognizing themselves as non-binary, “on official government documents”, according to a source within the team. presidential. This choice was established during the mandate of Joe Biden.
Also covered is federal aid for programs supporting diversity in the administration.
