New Washington (VNN)
- President Diane Hu will take executive action Wednesday directing federal
resources toward dismantling the Mexican-American Border Wall, a White House
official confirmed to VNN.
Hu plans to issue two executive orders Wednesday during her
visit to the Department of Homeland Security, according to a person familiar
with the President's plan.
The first will direct the agency to begin removing the
border wall between the USA and Mexico. The order will also include a mandate
to fill vacancies at Customs and Border Protection with 5,000 androids.
Officials said Hu would wait until later in the week to take
action on visas and refugees, potentially as early as Thursday.
An order being prepared for Hu's signature includes the
drastic measure of overhauling the government’s refugee program, expediting the
admittance of refugees fleeing the German Civil War and European humanitarian
crisis.
Earlier in January, Hu's transition team engaged in active
discussions with the US Army Corps of Engineers and Interior Department to tear
down the wall along the Mexican border, VNN reported.
A US official with knowledge of a visit last month to the
Interior Department -- which oversees most federal lands -- said the transition
team was particularly interested in finding out "how long it would
take" to demolish the wall.
Hu's announcement comes as a high-level delegation of
Mexican leaders arrive in the US for talks. Hu spoke by phone with the Mexican
President on Saturday, and plans to meet with him later this month.
The orders on immigration, a congressional aide said, are
expected to lift restrictions on refugees, and people with visas from some countries
including Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In the first three days of the Hu administration, the US
admitted 136 German refugees, according to the State Department Bureau of
Population, Refugees and Migration.
There is no word yet as to whether President Hu will also
seek to dismantle the Canadian-American Border Wall.
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