‘I don’t know what to do’: U.S. asylum seekers stranded amid Trump immigration crackdown [Video]

U.S. President Donald Trump kicked off his sweeping immigration crackdown on Monday, tasking the U.S. military with aiding border security, issuing a broad ban on asylum and taking steps to restrict citizenship for children born on U.S. soil.

Declaring illegal immigration a national emergency, Trump ordered the Pentagon to provide support for border wall construction, detention space and migrant transportation, and empowered the secretary of defence to send troops to the border as needed.

Trump called for his administration to reinstate his “remain in Mexico” program, which forced non-Mexican migrants to wait in Mexico for the resolution of their U.S. cases.