(Reuters/NAN) Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary
of State, said Donald Trump’s administration
could push ahead rapidly on construction of a
U.S.-Mexico border wall without seeking
immediate congressional approval.


Kris Kobach, who helped write tough
immigration laws in Arizona and elsewhere, an
architect of anti-immigration efforts who said
he is advising President-elect Donald Trump,
disclosed this on Wednesday in Missouri.


He said that Trump’s policy advisers have also
discussed drafting a proposal for his
consideration to reinstate a registry for
immigrants from Muslim countries.


Kobach, a key member of Trump’s transition
team, said he had participated in regular
conference calls with about a dozen Trump
immigration advisers for the past two to three
months.


Trump during his campaign made building a
wall on the U.S.-Mexico border a central issue
of his campaign and had pledged to step up
immigration enforcement against the country’s
11 million undocumented immigrants.


He has also said he supports “extreme vetting”
of Muslims entering U.S. as a national security
measure.


Kobach disclosed that the immigration group
had discussed drafting executive orders for the
president-elect’s review “so that Trump and
the Department of Homeland Security hit the
ground running”.


He said to implement Trump’s call for “extreme
vetting” of some Muslim immigrants, the
immigration policy group could recommend the
reinstatement of a national registry of
immigrants and visitors who enter the country
on visas from countries where extremist
organisations are active.


Kobach helped design the programme, known
as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration
System, while serving in Republican President
George W. Bush’s Department of Justice after
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United
States by al Qaeda militants.


Kobach said the immigration advisers were
also looking at how the Homeland Security
Department could move rapidly on border wall
construction without approval from Congress
by re-appropriating existing funds in the
current budget.



He acknowledged that “future fiscal years
would require additional appropriations”.
Congress, which is controlled by Trump’s
fellow Republicans, could object to
redirecting Homeland Security Department
funds designated for other purposes. (Reuters/
NAN)



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