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Some of these seem to be done to satisfy a desire to "undo" the administration that was "stolen". I can see how the climate one, the access to voting ones, and anti-discrimination ones got eliminated as that is what they have been selling, but these:

* Executive Order 14006 of January 26, 2021 (Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities)

* Executive Order 14052 of November 15, 2021 (Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act)

* Executive Order 14060 of December 15, 2021 (Establishing the United States Council on Transnational Organized Crime)

* Executive Order 14082 of September 12, 2022 (Implementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022)

* Executive Order 14087 of October 14, 2022 (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans)

[added] the title of this is not what is linked, the AI one is in there somewhere but this is a large laundry list of rescinded orders for the last 4 years. Title is "INITIAL RESCISSIONS OF HARMFUL EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND ACTIONS" Executive order

* Executive Order 14006 of January 26, 2021 (Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities)

This one was known, private prison stocks spiked when trump won. We just don't have the public facilities to house everyone that will be impacted by the anti-immigration promises.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/united-states/why-are-prison...

> We just don't have the public facilities to house everyone that will be impacted by the anti-immigration promises

My impression was deportation, not imprisonment? Unless it has to do with the new "tough on crime" thing that worked really well in the mid-80-90's for private prisons.

> My impression was deportation

To where? And how?

Currently, it's mostly to Mexico; and by "transportation", which in "usual" times means busses.

Deportation takes time. You generally have to be held before you go up in front of a judge. And then countries don't just accept someone that is claimed to be their citizen. They need to run their own validation before accepting the person and often time there's limits on how fast they accept people. So holding folks for weeks or months is common.

Plus there will be people who refuse to claim any citizenship and will need to be held until they can find where they go to.

Deportation sounds like a simple process but it's often anything but.

My understanding is that Trump gave himself expedited deportation powers, not really sure how that worked out or if it's accurate. But living in a border state, there is quite a bit of noise about it and how Mexico is rushing to build tent cities for what they expect to be a flood of citizens (or probably more likely, brown people looking like Mexican citizens that Stephen Miller and company has decided is Mexican) being returned to them, quickly and en masses.

> Executive Order 14006 of January 26, 2021 (Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities)

Joe Lonsdale[1], co-founder of Palantir and Trump backer, is an investor in private prisons[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lonsdale

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=Joe+Lonsdale+prisons

> Executive Order 14006 of January 26, 2021 (Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities)

This one is the second time round; in Trump's first term he reversed an Obama era executive order which phased them out. One assumes that the private prison lobby pays bigly.

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