The orders include declaring a national emergency to deploy military personnel to the border, suspending refugee resettlement and ending birthright citizenship.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday issued a flurry of executive orders and directives as he sought to put his stamp on his new administration on matters ranging from energy to criminal pardons and immigration.

President Trump is planning to invoke muscular presidential powers to begin a sweeping crackdown on immigration.

President Donald Trump signed multiple immigration executive orders upon arrival to the Oval Office Monday evening. He signed an order to attempt to end birthright citizenship, declared a national emergency at the country's southern border and suspended the refugee admissions program, amid a flurry of predicted immigration moves.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders declaring illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border a national emergency, designating criminal cartels as terrorist organizations, and targeting automatic citizenship for U.

President Donald Trump was sued over his bid to end automatic citizenship for children born in the US whose parents are unlawfully or temporarily in the country, kicking off a pitched legal fight over his immigration crackdown.

Immigrant and civil rights advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit against a birthright citizenship executive order signed by Republican U.S. President Donald Trump after taking office on Monday.

Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship for certain children born in the U.S. "On a prospective basis, the federal government will not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the United States,