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Executive Orders: u.s.-Mexico Border and Campaign Trail

executive orders: The demonstrations on May Day, celebrated as International Workers' Day, follow similar actions worldwide in which protesters from the Philippines to Paris demanded better working conditions, according to Globe and Mail. But the widespread protests in the United States were aimed directly at the new Republican president, who has followed aggressive anti-immigrant rhetoric on the campaign trail with aggressive action in the White House. She offered a pointed message to Trump Stop bullying immigrants. Trump, in his first 100 days, has intensified immigration enforcement, including executive orders for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and a ban on travellers from six predominantly Muslim countries. In Chicago, 28-year-old Brenda Burciaga was among thousands of people who marched through the streets to push back against the new administration. The government has arrested thousands of immigrants in the country illegally and threatened to withhold funding from jurisdictions that limit co-operation between local and federal immigration authorities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.