First Trump-era deportation bill leaves Democratic Party divided
Donald Trump kicked off his second term as U.S. president on Monday with a flurry of executive orders aimed at sweeping away the era of his predecessor, Joe Biden, and making a sharp U-turn on immigration, energy, and diversity policy. Although Trump pushed the limits of executive authority, for many of his priorities, presidential decrees are not enough; they need legal backing. The Republican-majority Congress has served him up on a platter the first law of the new legislature, which allows the president to put the focus on one of those priorities: deportations. The passage of the bill has left the Democratic Party divided on the issue.
