Donald Trump promised on Saturday that he would sign a ‘record’ number of presidential decrees immediately after being sworn in on Monday in Washington, where he is expected to arrive this Saturday evening.
In a telephone interview with NBC News, the soon-to-be 47th President of the United States said that he did not have a precise figure in mind, but that he expected to initial a ‘record’ number of executive orders from Monday afternoon.
‘More than a hundred?’ asked the NBC News journalist. “In that range at least”, replied the Republican leader, who pledged during his campaign and since he was elected to undo the policies of Joe Biden's administration.
‘As soon as I am sworn in, I will launch the largest deportation programme in American history’, he said at a rally.
The deportation of illegal immigrants -- of whom there are an estimated 11 million in the United States -- ‘will begin very, very quickly’, Mr Trump insisted on Saturday.
‘I can't say in which cities because things are moving,’ he added, after an official in his future administration had mentioned Chicago, a Democratic city, on Friday.
‘There are going to be actions all over the country. Chicago is just one of many places,’ said Tom Homan, former director of the Immigration and Border Control agency (ICE), who will be in charge of border protection, on Fox News.
Donald Trump had also announced on Friday that he had decided not to hold his inauguration ceremony, as tradition dictates, outside the Capitol, the seat of Congress, because of the polar cold that will sweep across the federal capital on Monday.
His swearing-in ceremony will take place inside the Capitol, under its Rotunda, a first in 40 years.
‘I think we made the right decision. The weather forecast looks really bad and cold and I think that would have been a risk for a lot of people’, explained the 78-year-old leader.
He is expected in Washington on Saturday evening for a reception at one of his golf courses and a fireworks display in Virginia, very close to the federal capital.
With AFP.
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