KXAN's Avery Travis sit down with Joshua Blank, the Director of Research for the Texas Politics Project, who speaks on the executive orders signed by President Donald Trump and their affect on Texas,

Those policy changes were expected to start rolling in fast in the first hours and days of his second term after a campaign in which Trump vowed to launch the largest deportation operation in the country’s history.

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

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The Laken Riley Act would require federal officials to detain immigrants who are in the country illegally and who are caught committing crimes including theft.

The migrants at El Buen Samaritano shelter had waited months to enter the United States through the CBP One app. Now they are stuck in Mexico.