Trump Follows Through on  Immigration Promises: President Donald Trump is set today to make good on his promise to order the construction of a wall along the border or Mexico to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S.  David E. Sanger at the New York Times reports that the wall is the first in a list of actions that the President intends to take to address the issue of illegal immigration and to improve national security.  According to Julia Edwards Ainsley from Reuters, the President is also expected to sign executive orders to put a temporary ban on refugees from most countries and suspend visas for citizens of Syria as well as six other Middle Eastern and African countries.

Teen Crime in D.C. is Rising: A troubling number of suspects between the ages of 12 and 17 have been arrested for violent crimes in the nation's capital over the last few months. According to Paul Wagner at Fox News, since October, D.C. police officers have charged 69 juvenile offenders with the crime of robbery alone, three of these suspects were only twelve years of age. Colbert King at the Washington Post gives an in-depth look into the growing problem of crime committed by adolescents in the city.

More Shootings in Chicago: Since yesterday morning, another life has been lost in a shooting on the streets of Chicago and 6 more people were injured.   As reported by the Chicago Tribune, multiple shootings have taken place in the last twenty-four hours in Chicago.  This seems to be a continuance of the trend of gun violence in the "gun controlled" Windy City.  During the fist three weeks of 2017 there have been nearly 250 shootings and 37 murders in Chicago according to Jessica D'Onofrio at ABC News.