State of emergency on the Mexican border and “millions” of promised deportations, withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, pardons for hundreds of Capitol Hill attackers. Newly inaugurated as US president, Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders on Monday to mark his return to power . However, some of these hundred spectacular measures will likely be difficult to implement and promise to be fiercely contested in the courts. Some even appear to violate the US Constitution.

Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and WHO

The withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement is underway : Donald Trump has staged it by making it one of his first signed decrees, on a desk installed right on the stage of the great hall in Washington where some 20,000 of his supporters were gathered. This measure, coming from the second largest polluter in the world after China, puts at risk global efforts to combat climate change. It is due to come into force in a year. The United States had already briefly left the international agreement during the first term of the American billionaire, before Joe Biden announced his return. Donald Trump, a known climate skeptic, has also signed an executive order declaring a "state of energy emergency" to increase oil and gas production in the United States. "We will drill like crazy," he repeated, a phrase that became one of his campaign slogans ("We will drill, baby, drill"). Another surprise decree: the withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization.

Duties from February

“We will impose tariffs and taxes on foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” the 47th president of the United States promised in his inaugural address. From the Oval Office, in the evening, he specified that he expected “about 25% on Mexico and Canada.” Starting when? “From February 1,” he estimated. The United States’ closest neighbors are theoretically protected by a free trade agreement signed during his first term.

Panama Canal and Greenland

“We will take back” the Panama Canal, the new president said. Built by the United States, control of the canal was transferred to Panama in 1999, following an agreement signed in 1977.

"A senseless gift," Donald Trump criticized. "The purpose of our agreement and the spirit of our treaty have been totally violated," he said. "American ships are seriously overloaded (...) And above all, China manages the Panama Canal, and we did not give it to China. " "The canal belongs and will continue to belong to Panama," Panamanian President José Raul Mulino responded. On the other territorial issue of the moment, Greenland, which he wants to take control of, the American president said he was "sure that Denmark will get used to the idea" that the United States "needs it for international security."

Anti-immigration offensive

Donald Trump's promised anti-immigration offensive took shape in his midday inauguration speech. "All illegal entries will be stopped immediately and we will begin sending millions and millions of criminal aliens back to where they came from," the Republican president reiterated. "I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country." In the evening, from the White House, he signed the decree declaring a state of emergency on the border with Mexico. Donald Trump also intends to attack the right to asylum and the right to disembark. The first concrete effect came on Monday, when the asylum application platform launched by the Biden administration stopped working. "Existing appointments have been canceled," the service's website reads.

Pardon for Capitol Attackers

More than 1,500 participants in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, have been pardoned as soon as the man who claimed that Joe Biden's election was "rigged" returned to power . The sentences of the other fourteen people convicted will be commuted to time already served. " We hope they will be released tonight," said Donald Trump. The charges still pending against several hundred people have also been dropped. An "insult to the American justice system," said former Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

Gender issues

“Ending the transgender delusion” was another of his campaign pledges. “From now on, the official policy of the United States government will be to say that there are only two sexes, male and female,” defined at birth, Donald Trump said Monday. Federal support for diversity programs has also come under fire.

(Online Union)

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