
President Trump signed a raft of executive orders and actions on inauguration day. Here are some key highlights that are of global interest and likely to.impact KENYA and or Kenyans in diaspora;
- Order to withdraw US from World Health Organisation (WHO). Scientists fear this could roll back decades of agains made in fighting infectious diseases like AIDs, malaria, TB and weaken worlds defence against dangerous new outbreaks cable of triggering pandemics.
- Order to withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming.
- Immigration order restoring the 2017 deportation criteria to pursue everyone in the country illegally not just those with serious criminal records, those deemed national security or public safety threats but also those who recently crossed the border.
Will also end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. - Order lifting moratorium of federal executions on death penalty. Orders Attorney General to immediately help States get lethal injection drugs for death penalty.
References:
Skynews, Newyork Times and WDSW.
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