President Donald Trump and Vice President Vance looked visibly annoyed as a bishop delivered a liberal leaning political sermon during the prayer service at the National Cathedral.
Trump, Vance, and their families attended a service at the church on Tuesday as part of a long-held tradition for newly sworn in leaders. However, during the service, one bishop’s sermon took a political turn.
“There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families. Some fear for their lives,” the bishop claimed, before talking about immigration.
“And the people who pick our crops, clean our office buildings, labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat at restaurants and work the night shifts at hospitals, they may not be citizens, or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals,” she said.
After the sermon, Trump and Vance looked at each other and shook their heads, appearing to be visibly annoyed. The remarks come just one day after Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, signing a day one executive orders declaring a national emergency at the border and that there are only two genders: male and female.
President Donald Trump’s day one executive orders included a move to limit restrictions placed on federal immigration officials under the Biden administration.
Previously, under a memo signed by Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, federal immigration officials were restricted from enforcing immigration laws in certain “protected areas,” such as schools, healthcare facilities and places of worship, among others.
Under Trump’s Inauguration Day reversal of that order, immigration officials are now told to use “a healthy dose of common sense” alongside that same discretion. The memo states further that it is not the purview of the Secretary of Homeland Security to “create bright line rules regarding where our immigration laws are permitted to be enforced.”
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents who spoke to Fox News Digital said the move will free them up to go after more illegal immigrants.
Meanwhile, a second day one order from Trump ordered a review of the Biden administration’s expanded use of humanitarian parole. The new order emphasizes that the authority be used going forward on a “case-by-case basis,” noting that parole authority has been “abused” in the past and should only be “a limited use authority, applicable only in a very narrow set of circumstances.”
Under the humanitarian parole memo the heads of ICE and Customs and order Protection are directed to compile a list of instructions, policies and procedures related to parole, review them, and formulate a plan to phase out any that are not in accord with the statute.
House Republicans are moving to back up President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship as it faces an expected flurry of legal challenges.
House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Brian Babin, R-Texas, is planning to introduce a new bill on the issue this week, Fox News Digital was told, with more than 20 GOP lawmakers already signing on to co-sponsor the effort.
Babin told Fox News Digital that he saw an issue both with people coming over the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and having children here, and wealthier foreigners coming to the U.S. just to have children, colloquially known as “birth tourism.”
Like Trump’s order, his bill would limit birthright citizenship to babies born with at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or a lawful non-citizen serving in the U.S. military. It would exclude children born to illegal immigrants or parents on temporary visas.
Babin said he discussed the bill with members of Trump’s circle before the executive order was issued.
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