As announced during the inauguration of Donald Trump, the White House released images showing expulsions of migrants. According to the declarations of the White House, it is the greatest operation of expulsion in history. However, some observers nuance these claims, recalling that nearly 742 people were expelled per day in 2024.
Donald Trump makes a trip to California this Friday, a state that promised to lead the resistance against him, while the White House features expulsions of migrants in an irregular situation.
Promises made, promises held
The White House boiled for launching “the greatest mass expulsion operation in history“. “Promises made, promises held“, we read on the official account of the American executive on X.
“The Trump administration arrested 538 illegal criminal migrants“Said his spokesperson Karoline Leavitt on X, adding that”hundreds“had been expelled, using army planes for the first time.
Pure propaganda operation
“It is a pure propaganda operation“, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, expert from the American Immigration Council,Last year and in previous years, there were already dozens of expulsion flights each week“.
During the budget year 2024 (October to the end of September), under the chairmanship of Joe Biden, the border police had expelled a total of 271,000 undocumented migrants, an average of 742 people per day.
The Republican President has promised to expel a total of “millions”. Shortly after his inauguration on Monday, he signed a series of decrees intended to stop the arrival of migrants in an irregular situation – one of them, calling into question the law of the soil, was contested in court.
Donald Trump declared “a state of national emergency “ On the southern border, with Mexico, and announced the deployment of additional troops. “All States have the right to exercise their jurisdiction along their international borders” more “They must do so in accordance with their human rights obligations“Said the spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani.
Natural disasters
The White House communication operation on immigration takes place while Donald Trump left the White House on Friday for its first trip, in North Carolina (Southeast) and California (west), two states experienced by Natural disasters of which the Republican leader has made subjects of intense controversial.
The North Carolina had been affected in October, in the middle of the presidential campaign, by the hurricane Hélène who left 104 dead there. Donald Trump had virulent the crisis management of President Joe Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris, his unhappy democrat rival.
In the viewfinder of the 78 -year -old billionaire: FEMA, a federal agency for response to natural disasters. This organization “will be the subject of a big discussion shortly, because I would prefer to see the states (federated) take care of their own problems“Said the American president at Fox News.
I don’t think we have to give anything to California
In this same interview, he also repeated his threats against the Californian authorities: “I don’t think we should give anything to California until they let water flow from north to south“State to combat fires in Los Angeles.
This climatosceptic said several times that California lacked water because of democratic environmental policies, affirmations denied by experts. Again Wednesday, he said he wanted “observe this fire which could have been turned off if they had let the water flow“.
According to the press, the president will be welcomed at his descent of the aircraft, 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, which treated it “idiot“In his Wednesday interview with Fox News.
The governor positioned himself as one of the great opposition animators against Donald Trump. He wishes “Defend (the) Constitution and enforce the rule of law“.
California, with its progressive customs in terms of manners and its initiatives to combat climate change, has long been in the sight of the hard right.
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