Trump set to roll out wave of controversial executive actions on day one in office: ‘Like nothing in history’

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Now, Trump’s transition team is outlining a series of executive actions on immigration within hours of his return, what one campaign official told NBC News will be “like nothing you’ve seen in history.” Trump is expected to sign up to five executive actions targeting immigration shortly after he is sworn into office on January 20, according to NBC News. “There will be a push to make a huge early show and assert himself to show his campaign promises were not hollow.” open image in gallery Trump’s ‘day one’ agenda includes a series of executive orders targeting illegal immigration and undocumented Americans Among Trump’s first appointments for his administration was “border czar” Tom Homan, his former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “As part of my plan to secure the border,” Trump said in a campaign video, “I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic US citizenship.” open image in gallery Trump’s ‘border czar’ Tom Homan is expected to oversee the president-elect’s mass deportation plans He argued that his actions will “choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration.” Trump also will have to work quickly to see his agenda through; bound by the constraints of the 22nd Amendment, Trump will only have one four-year term. “I don’t think there is any question Trump won and won big on the idea that cracking down on illegal immigration is not just a priority, but the priority,” a Trump donor told NBC News.