The tycoon promised throughout the electoral campaign fight against irregular immigration And, once in office, he declared the state of national emergency on the border with Mexico and signed a save of migratory decrees.
“The Trump administration arrested 538 illegal criminal immigrants” and “deported hundreds of them in military planes,” announced in X (formerly Twitter) the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt.
“The greatest mass deportation operation in history is underway. Promises made. Promises fulfilled”the spokeswoman added.
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In his campaign, Donald Trump promised the greatest deportation campaign in history.
Trump’s campaign against migrants
During his campaign, the Republican had described migrants as “savages”, “animals” or “criminals”, and promised the greatest deportation campaign in the history of the United States, where they live around 11 million people in an irregular situation.
For his part, the spokesman of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, He assured last Friday in Geneva that While countries “have the right to exercise their jurisdiction at their international borders,” they must remember that “the right to seek asylum is a universally recognized human right.”
Meanwhile, on Thursday the mayor of the city of Newark, In New Jersey, the Democrat Ras baraka, reported in a statement that agents of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) “They raided an establishment (…) stopping undocumented residents and also citizens, without presenting a court order”.
In turn, the mayor reported that one of the detainees is a American army veteranan action that described as a “Atrocious act and flagrant violation” of the United States Constitution.
“Newark will not be left with crossed ones while illegally terrifying the population “, Baraka sentenced.
“Stay in Mexico” program
This Tuesday, the president announced that he will restore The “Stay in Mexico” program –A policy that implemented in its first term (2017-2021)-, which among other things implies that those who seek asylum must wait on the Mexican side while their order is processed.
Similarly, the Republican also ended a program by Democrat Joe Biden destined to offer legal routes for asylum application for people who fled violence and denounced having suffered political persecution.
In addition to that, Trump too He suspended until further warning in the United States of refugees who requested asylumeven to those who were granted.
Among the decrees signed by the new president is also an executive order that seeks to restrict the right of citizenship by birth in the United States, a right included in the 14th amendment of the Constitution signed in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, a federal judge of Seattle This executive order temporarily suspended on Thursday.
This week the Congress also gave a green light to a law to expand the preventive imprisonment of foreigners in irregular situation that are suspicious of crimes.
Source: Ambito