Trump claimed success in deporting illegals
US President Donald Trump believes that the deportation of illegal migrants from the country is going well, first of all expelling criminals. CBS News reported on January 24 that.
"Deportation is going very well. We are removing bad, hardened criminals," - said the head of the United States to journalists in North Carolina.
According to him, these are the worst people there can be. Trump added that they are being taken out first. Additional information about those on the deportation flights has not been released.
"The Trump administration has arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals, including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex offenses against minors," White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt wrote on social network X (formerly Twitter).
She also said that this is the largest deportation operation in history.
A day earlier, Fox News, citing interlocutors at the Department of Homeland Security, said the U.S. has seen a sharp drop in the number of illegal migrants crossing the southern border in the first days of President Donald Trump's administration.
Fox News said then that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended more than 460 undocumented migrants in the first days of Donald Trump's presidency, including those with convictions for sexual and domestic violence, as well as drug and weapons offenses.
The day before, Trump restricted the right of illegal migrants who entered the U.S. through the southern border. The US President authorized and directed the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the State Department to take all necessary measures to immediately repel the invasion, repatriation and removal of illegal immigrants through the southern border of the country.
On the same day, the media learned of U.S. plans to send thousands of military personnel to protect the border with Mexico. To date, about 2.2 thousand military personnel are already on the border as part of Task Force North in El Paso, Texas.
Before that, on January 21, the curator of border security in the Trump administration Thomas Homan said that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began to detain illegal migrants for their further deportation. At the same time, he noted that ICE's actions cannot be called raids, as they are part of targeted law enforcement operations.
Back on January 17, Politico reported that the U.S. presidential team intends to declare a state of emergency to combat illegal migration. It was noted that officials were also working on a decree to abolish the right to U.S. citizenship by birth.
