The move echoes Trump’s first term in office when the landing page for Spanish-language communications was also unavailable.
WASHINGTON — The Spanish-language section of the White House’s website has seemingly gone dark a day after President Donald Trump took office.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the WhiteHouse.gov/es page was showing a 404-error with a “Go to Homepage” button. The move echoes Trump’s first term in office when the landing page for Spanish-language communications was also unavailable.
Shortly after Trump first took office in Jan. 2017, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer had said the site would be restored. However, the page never returned during Trump’s first four years in office.
Offering a Spanish-language version of the White House website has been a tradition since Former President George W. Bush. The Obama and Biden administrations followed suit.
The Trump administration has also removed a section of the White House site that featured the U.S. constitution. Government website reproductiverights.gov, created by the Biden administration to provide resources for those seeking info on reproductive rights and subjects such as abortion, also went offline after Trump’s inauguration.
The removal of the Spanish-language section comes after Trump signed a slew of executive orders aimed at remaking immigration policies.
Some of the orders revive priorities from his first administration that his predecessor had rolled back, including forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico and finishing the border wall. Others launched sweeping new strategies, like an effort to end automatic citizenship for anyone born in America.
Hours after taking office, Trump’s administration also shut down the U.S. Customs and Border Protection One app, a Biden-era tool that allowed gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants.
The online lottery system gave appointments to 1,450 people a day at eight border crossings to enter on “parole,” which Biden used more than any president.
It was a critical piece of the Biden administration’s border strategy to create new immigration pathways while cracking down on people who enter illegally.
Migrants who had scored coveted appointments weeks ago found them canceled.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
