U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), a policy introduced in 2012 that gives children brought to the U.S. illegally the right to temporarily stay, study and work in the country.
The repeal of DACA would be the latest in a series of controversial policy moves on immigration since his January 20 inauguration. CGTN looks back at the past few months of abrupt announcements and ensuing legal battles.
January 25: Trump signs Mexico wall, deportations orders
Trump signs two executive orders, the first calling for construction to begin on a border wall with Mexico, as promised in his election campaign. The second order widens criteria for deportations, and removes federal funding for so-called "sanctuary cities" – jurisdictions that do not fully comply with national immigration law.
Trump's quote:
"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records… we have a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million."
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order to start the Mexico border wall project at the Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington, DC, on January 25, 2017. /AFP Photo
Reaction:
Trump's insistence that Mexico will fund the wall prompts a diplomatic rift.
Construction on the wall is still yet to begin.
A California federal judge in April partly blocks the "sanctuary cities" order.
41,000 undocumented migrants arrested in the first 100 days of Trump's presidency, a 38 percent year-on-year increase.
Deportations however decrease by 12 percent compared to the year before.
January 27: Trump's first "Muslim ban"
Trump shocks the world with an executive order, calling for a 90 day ban on all arrivals to the U.S. from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, as well as permanently halting all refugee arrivals from Syria.
Trump's quote:
"This is not about religion — this is about terror and keeping our country safe."
Reaction:
Mass protests across the country, particularly at airports, which became scenes of mass confusion.
Federal judges block part of the order and issue temporary restraining orders.
Former president Barack Obama breaks protocol by issuing a statement, fundamentally disagreeing "with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion."
February 9: Court upholds restraining order on ban
A three-judge panel in San Francisco's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the travel ban should not be reinstated, saying "the government has pointed to no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the order has perpetrated a terrorist attack in the United States."
Trump's quote:
"It's a political decision, we're going to see them in court, and I look forward to doing that."
Reaction:
The Trump administration chooses not to take the case to the Supreme Court, says it is "considering and pursuing all options."
Trump's defeated election rival Hilary Clinton simply tweets "3-0," referring to the ban's third defeat in court.
