FIRST THINGS FIRST — President-elect Donald Trump is planning to make good on his campaign trail promise that immigration would be a day one priority in his second administration. Today, he appeared to confirm on social media that he would declare a national emergency to embark on a mass deportation campaign.

In September Elon Musk, a South African-born American whose firms employ many foreign engineers, posted on his website X that “the legal immigration process in America needs to be greatly streamlined and expanded.