Donald Trump made a trip on Friday to take him to California, a state that promised to lead the resistance against him, while the White House features expulsions of irregular migrants.
During this trip devoted to recent natural disasters, a hurricane having ravaged North Carolina (Southwest) in October and fires in Los Angeles, the Republican once again signaled his intention to control federal aid very closely intended for states.
“We take out the worst criminals” from the country, assured the American president, without further details, in Asheville (North Carolina), his first stage.
The White House has boasted of having launched “the greatest mass eviction operation in history”. “The Trump administration arrested 538 illegal criminal migrants,” said its spokesperson Karoline Leavitt on X, adding that “hundreds” had been expelled, using army planes for the first time.
The Pentagon confirmed that two military planes had taken migrants to Guatemala.
“It is a pure propaganda operation,” said on X Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an expert in the American Immigration Council.
During the budget year 2024 (October to the end of September), under the chairmanship of Joe Biden, the border police had expelled 271,000 undocumented migrants, an average of 742 people per day.
The Republican President has promised to expel a total of “millions”.
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Donald Trump, who has made his first trip on Friday since his inauguration on Monday, will not go in person on Friday to the great annual march of opponents of abortion in Washington.
The septuagenarian, who was the first president in office to participate in 2020 in this rally, however recorded, according to the White House, a video message for the demonstrators.
With North Carolina and California, he chose two states experienced by natural disasters that the Republican leader uses to attack his democratic opponents.
The billionaire, who wants to closely control the distribution of federal aid in the event of natural disasters, suggested on Friday that he was going to “perhaps delete” FEMA, the federal response agency to hurricanes, fires and other disasters.
-He also said that any additional help for North Carolina or California “would go through us”, and “not by FEMA”.
His attacks on this organization had gained momentum in particular during the last electoral campaign, when he had taken wreckage from Hurgagan Hélène to reproach Democratic President Joe Biden and FEMA for having voluntarily neglected in zones disaster because they voted republican.
Donald Trump, however, has never given evidence to these accusations.
With regard to California, he threatens to question federal aid, ensuring that the Democratic authorities have cut water supplying anti-fire systems, affirmations denied by experts.
He said he also wanted to approach the electoral rules in this great democratic state during his trip.
“I want two things in Los Angeles. I want evidence of identity for voters and I want water to be released,” he said.
Last August the president, who regularly assures that the electoral system would be “rigged” against him, said that “if Jesus counted the voices” he could win in California.
In November, Democrat Vice-President Kamala Harris undoubtedly won the state, even if Donald Trump made progress there.
According to the press, the president will be welcomed at his descent of the aircraft in Los Angeles, as is the use, by the governor of the State, Gavin Newsom.
This hope of the Democratic Party is one of the privileged targets of the Republican.
The governor positioned himself as one of the great opposition animators against Donald Trump. He wishes to “defend (the) constitution and enforce the rule of law”.
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