Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border.

Trump pledged to declare a national emergency at the country’s southern border and “begin the process of returning millions of criminal aliens” to their home countries. The president said he would reinstate the “Remain in Mexico” program that began under his first administration.

By Ted Hesson and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump plans to take a flurry of executive actions aimed at cracking down on legal and illegal immigration and ramping up deportations after he enters the White House on Monday,

Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump to declare national energy emergency On his first day in office, President-elect Trump will issue a

U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency to boost drilling and speed up pipeline construction should withstand court challenges but will not allow oil and gas producers to skirt all environmental laws,

President Trump signed a "national energy emergency" that gives his administration new powers to boost fossil fuel development around the country.

The misuse of power under Donald Trump is to be taken for granted. Monday ’s list of executive actions on behalf of the fossil-fuel industry was entirely expected—this time around, there is no hesitation about withdrawing from the Paris climate accord (a decision that took four months in his first term),

Though largely symbolic, President Trump’s declaration of an “energy emergency” could throw a wrench in renewable energy development and will cut into the Endangered Species Act