Donald Trump, who became the 47th President of the United States for the second time this Monday, very quickly signed a first round of decrees. The first decisions target migrants and transgender people.
Barely reinstalled in the Oval Office of the White House, reports France 24, Donald Trump signed at least a hundred presidential decrees this Monday, January 20.
Its number one target: illegal immigration, the spearhead of all its campaigns. “Any illegal entry into the country will be immediately stopped, and we will begin sending home millions and millions” of illegal immigrants, assured the President of the United States during his inauguration speech in Washington.
First, the 47th President of the United States will declare a “national state of emergency on the southern border” with Mexico. He announced it just after his swearing in. This measure will provide funds to send armed forces to the border and “put an end to this disastrous invasion in our country”, but also to restart the construction of the wall between the United States and Mexico – the obsession of Donald Trump during his first term.
Among the ten other decrees concerning immigration, Donald Trump plans to end the right to request asylum at the border by establishing an immediate expulsion process, to abolish the right of soil, or even to designate a Venezuelan gang as a “terrorist group”.
Thus, Donald Trump intends to further restrict the rights of the approximately 11 million people residing illegally on American territory, in a country with 340 million inhabitants. Their expulsion “will begin very, very quickly,” he insisted on January 18. However, he refused to specify the cities concerned, stressing that “things were moving”, after his close collaborator Tom Homan spoke of expulsions of undocumented immigrants from Chicago starting on Tuesday. the one we call “the tsar of the borders”.
Donald Trump also plans to force asylum seekers to return to the border while their cases are examined. During his first term, he had already established a policy called “Remain in Mexico” forcing tens of thousands of asylum seekers, mainly from Mexico and Central America, to wait for their hearings. other side of the border.
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