① According to the schedule, Trump will give a judicial policy speech one hour before the U.S. stock market closes on Friday; ② Given Trump's long entanglement with the U.S. judicial system, this scene itself will be recorded in history; ③ Insider sources say the White House is considering invoking a law used only during the two World Wars to expel illegal immigrants, with the policy expected to be announced on Friday.
The U.S. Department of Justice will welcome a rather rare visitor on Friday – the current U.S. President Trump. This guest is also a former criminal suspect that the department has been working hard to prosecute and convict over the past few years.
Without a doubt, the moment Trump stands in the lobby of the U.S. Department of Justice will also be a historic scene, and it will also be a moment that worries U.S. stock investors.
According to Roll Call's schedule for Trump, the U.S. President will leave the White House at 2:50 PM Eastern Time on Friday, drive for 5 minutes to the U.S. Department of Justice, and then give a speech at 3 PM.
The New York Times commented that Trump's visit is an expression of 'conquest and innocence.'
During a media interview at the White House on Thursday, Trump stated he would go to the Department of Justice to elaborate on 'his vision' and added that it would be 'the vision of the U.S. Department of Justice, but will be his ideas.' What worries investors is that the U.S. President emphasized he would discuss 'many topics,' covering 'all aspects.'
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt stated in a statement that the U.S. President will also discuss 'ending the politicization of the judicial weapon.' Of course, Trump's administration's statements cannot just be taken at face value. Since Trump took office, his aides have already begun a personnel purge, dismissing prosecutors handling the Capitol riots and forcibly pushing to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Aside from tariffs and tax cuts, a key part of Trump's political agenda is the expulsion of illegal immigrants, a task closely related to the Department of Justice and tightly connected to the U.S. economy.
There are widespread concerns among the Industry and economists in the USA that large-scale deportations of illegal immigrants or enforcing identity verification programs in the workplace could lead to severe local shortages in the labor market, which in turn would impact the USA's economy.
According to a statistics report by the financial data visualization website VisualCapitalist at the end of last year, the USA's construction and Agriculture industries are the most reliant on illegal immigrants, with illegal immigrants accounting for more than 10% of the overall workforce. At the same time, there are also millions of illegal immigrants in various fields of the service industry.
According to reports cited by the media from informed officials, the White House is planning to use a wartime law (Note: the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which have only been used three times during the two World Wars) to accelerate the deportation of illegal immigrants, with related steps expected to be announced as early as Friday. Although Trump has not publicly expressed dissatisfaction, his advisers are increasingly concerned about the speed of deporting illegal immigrants.
To fulfill Trump's political slogan of implementing the 'largest deportation action in US history,' the Department of Justice officials have reassigned agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to participate in the enforcement of illegal immigration actions. It is reported that many of the reassigned law enforcement officers are quite dissatisfied with this move.
According to local media statistics, this visit by Trump will mark the first time a US president has delivered a political speech at the Department of Justice since 2014. At that time, Obama announced new guidelines for intelligence gathering in response to the revelations about the Prism program by Snowden. Additionally, US presidents mostly visit the Department of Justice to attend ceremonial activities. In 2017, Trump had planned to speak at the agency following the retaliatory firing of FBI Director James Comey, but was persuaded by his advisers not to do so.
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