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President Trump kicked off his second tour of the White House on Monday with a spate of executive orders that aimed to seal off the nation from immigrants by closing off legal channels for migrants to enter, especially access to asylum.
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Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
State leaders are calling for a mix of punitive and community-based strategies to combat the fatal drug amid a White House push to seal off the Southern border.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
Down in Altadena, the National Guard sealed off our neighborhood.
—Josh Eells, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
That directive could seal off the gap used by smugglers now at the Pajarita Wilderness, one of the remaining unfenced portions of Arizona’s border with Mexico.
—Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 3 Feb. 2025
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Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
State leaders are calling for a mix of punitive and community-based strategies to combat the fatal drug amid a White House push to seal off the Southern border.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
Down in Altadena, the National Guard sealed off our neighborhood.
—Josh Eells, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
That directive could seal off the gap used by smugglers now at the Pajarita Wilderness, one of the remaining unfenced portions of Arizona’s border with Mexico.
—Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Seal off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seal%20off. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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