Trump cements wall plan and will crack down on undocumented Irish

Donald Trump has signed directives which will not only see a wall built along the US border with Mexico, but also crack down on cities that shield illegal immigrants, such as the undocumented Irish.

The new US president is also expected, in the coming days, to limit legal immigration, including making executive orders restricting refugees and blocking the issuing of visas to people from several Muslim-majority countries, including Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Libya, and Yemen.

Trump signed two executive orders at the Department of Homeland Security yesterday. One ordered the construction of a wall along the roughly 2,000-mile US-Mexico border and the other moving to strip federal grant money from “sanctuary” states and cities, which harbour illegal immigrants.