While he has expressed support for North Carolina residents, the president has criticized Californiaβs Democratic leaders and threatened to withhold federal aid from the state.
The death of a young Black man, Karon Hylton-Brown, led to days of protests in 2020, not long after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
The direct appeal to President Trump on the first full day of his term was a remarkable moment at a National Cathedral event that traditionally has not been political.
The presidentβs Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic operations and the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
The incoming presidentβs team said he would take unilateral action on a variety of fronts during his first hours in office, including 10 executive orders cracking down on immigration and immigrants.
The president-electβs immigration advisers have warned Republicans that it will take time and money from Congress to carry out the mass deportation effort he has promised to execute immediately.
The size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-electβs goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.
The president has issued policy decisions in a number of areas in the final days of his term, including environmental justice, prison reform and immigration.
President-elect Donald J. Trumpβs advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.
Worried that the campaign was neglecting voters of color in Philadelphia and other battleground cities, organizers secretly gathered at a Dunkinβ Donuts and elsewhere to get out the vote.
In Philadelphia, frustrated campaign organizers for Vice President Kamala Harris gathered in stealth at a Dunkinβ Donuts as they tried to turn out Black and Latino voters on their own.
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