Keep Your Eye On Trump's Other Hand

Watch what he does, not what he says.

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Trump bars White House officials from appearing on CNN news.

Officials say they will only appear on networks that “promote our agenda.”

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Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

Gorsuch is best known for being the judge who sided with Hobby Lobby in the court case over whether employers could refuse to provide health insurance that covers birth control for female employees.

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Trump appoints Jerry Falwell, Jr., to lead the Higher Education Task Force.

Falwell is the President of Liberty University and is a prominent Evangelical Christian leader.

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Trump fails to mention Jews during his speech for Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Trump fires acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Trump fires acting Attorney General Susan Yates for questioning the legality of an executive order.

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Trump appoints Steve Bannon, a white nationalist with no security experience, to his National Security Council.

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Trump removes the Director of National Intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from his National Security Council.

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Trump orders the Pentagon to come up with a plan to defeat the Islamic State within 30 days.

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Trump signs executive order banning executive branch officials from lobbying for five years after the end of their term, and banning them from lobbying on behalf of foreign governments for life.

This order does not prevent lobbyists from taking positions in the executive branch.

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Trump’s ban on entry from seven countries includes travelers who hold dual citizenship in a non-banned country, and also green card holders who live in the United States.

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Trump orders an end to Priority Enforcement of immigration violations.

This will reinstate an immigration enforcement law that requires local authorities to hand over all fingerprint records to the federal government, regardless of whether that person was ever convicted of a crime.

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Trump orders the Attorney General to publish a weekly list of non-U.S. citizens who have committed a crime.

There is no reason to believe that these published crimes will be limited to only those crimes that have been convicted in a court of law.

“(b)  To better inform the public regarding the public safety threats associated with sanctuary jurisdictions, the Secretary shall utilize the Declined Detainer Outcome Report or its equivalent and, on a weekly basis, make public a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens and any jurisdiction that ignored or otherwise failed to honor any detainers with respect to such aliens.”

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Trump bans entry to the United States from seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

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Trump suspends the U.S. refugee program on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This order prevents Syrian refugees from entering the United States indefinitely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/trump-syrian-refugees.html

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Trump signs executive order to hire 5,000 more border patrol agents and to triple the number of agents in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Trump signs executive order revoking federal funding for “sanctuary cities.”

These cities choose not to use local law enforcement to pursue immigration violations.