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ByJuliePace The Associated Press WASHINGTON President Donald Trump moved ag- gressively to tighten the nation's immigration con- trols Wednesday, signing executive actions to jump- start construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico bor- der wall and cut federal grants for immigrant-pro- tecting "sanctuary cities." He also weighed a plan to pause the flow of refugees to the U.S. and indefinitely bar all those fleeing war- torn Syria. "Beginning today the United States of America gets back control of its bor- ders," Trump declared dur- ing a visit to the Depart- ment of Homeland Secu- rity. "We are going to save lives on both sides of the border." The actions, less than a week into Trump's pres- idency, fulfilled pledges that animated his candi- dacy and represented a dramatic redirection of U.S. immigration policy. They were cheered by Re- publicans allies in Con- gress, condemned by im- migration advocates and the trigger for immediate new tension with the Mex- ican government. Trump is expected to wield his executive power again later this week with the directive to dam the refugee flow into the U.S. for at least four months, in addition to the open-ended pause on Syrian arrivals. The president's upcom- ing order is also expected to suspend issuing visas for people from several pre- dominantly Muslim coun- tries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — for at least 30 days, according to a draft executive order obtained by The Associated Press. Trump is unveiling his immigration plans at a time when detentions at the nation's southern bor- der are down significantly from levels seen in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The arrest tally last year was the fifth-lowest since 1972. Deportations of people liv- ing in the U.S. illegally also increased under President Barack Obama, though Re- publicans criticized him for setting prosecution guide- lines that spared some groups from the threat of deportation, including those brought to the U.S. illegally as children. As a candidate, Trump tapped into the immi- gration concerns of some Americans who worry both about a loss of economic op- portunities and the threat of criminals and terror- ists entering the country. His call for a border wall was among his most popu- lar proposals with support- ers, who often broke out in chants of "build that wall" during rallies. Immigration advocates and others assailed the new president's actions. Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liber- ties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project, said the president's desire to con- struct a border wall was "driven by racial and eth- nic bias that disgraces America's proud tradition of protecting vulnerable migrants." How Trump plans to pay for the wall project is murky. While he has re- peatedly promised that Mexico will foot the bill, U.S. taxpayers are expected to cover the initial costs and the new administra- tion has said nothing about how it might compel Mex- ico to reimburse the money. In an interview with ABC News earlier Wednes- day, Trump said, "There will be a payment; it will be in a form, perhaps a com- plicated form." Mexican President En- rique Pena Nieto, who has insisted his country will not pay for a wall, has been expected to meet with Trump at the White House next week, although a spokesman for the Mexi- can leader said Trump's an- nouncement had led him to reconsider the visit. Congressional aides say there is about $100 mil- lion of unspent appropri- ations in the Department of Homeland Security ac- count for border security, fencing and infrastructure. That would allow planning efforts to get started, but far more money would have to be appropriated for con- struction to begin. Trump has insisted many times the border structure will be a wall. The order he signed re- ferred to "a contiguous, physical wall or other sim- ilarly secure, contiguous and impassable physical barrier." To build the wall, the president is relying on a 2006 law that authorized several hundred miles of fencing along the 2,000- mile frontier. That bill led to the construction of about 700 miles of various kinds of fencing designed to block both vehicles and pedestrians. The president's orders also call for hiring 5,000 additional border patrol agents and 10,000 more im- migration officers, though the increases are subject to the approval of congressio- nal funding. He also moved to end what Republicans have labeled a catch-and- release system at the bor- der. Currently, some im- migrants caught crossing the border illegally are re- leased and given notices to report back to immigration officials at a later date. Trump's crackdown on sanctuary cities — locales that don't cooperate with immigration authorities — could cost individual juris- dictions millions of dollars. But the administration may face legal challenges, given that some federal courts have found that cities or counties cannot hold im- migrants beyond their jail terms or deny them bond based only a request from immigration authorities. Some of the nation's largest metropolitan ar- eas — including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — are considered sanctu- ary cities. The president also moved to restart the "Se- cure Communities" pro- gram, which was launched under President George W. Bush and initially touted as a way for immigration authorities to quickly and easily identify people in the country illegally who had been arrested by local au- thorities. The program helped the Obama administration de- port a record high of more than 409,000 immigrants in 2012. But Obama even- tually abandoned the pro- gram after immigration advocates and civil liber- tarians decried it as too of- ten targeting immigrants charged with low-level crimes, including traffic violations. Among those in the audi- ence for Trump's remarks at DHS were the families of people killed by people in the U.S. illegally. After reading the names of those killed, Trump said, "Your children will not have lost their lives for no reason." Trump's actions on halting all refugees could be announced as soon as Thursday. Administra- tion officials and others briefed on the plans cau- tioned that some details of the measures could still be changed, but indicated that Trump planned to follow through on his campaign promises to limit access to the U.S. for people coming from countries with terror- ism ties. 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