The new American president did not hide it during his campaign: he is going to deport en masse.
The incoming U.S. administration plans to step up the fight against illegal immigration soon after President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, a person familiar with the matter said. “We will organize operations across the country,” the person told Reuters on Friday. “There will be arrests in New York. There will be arrests in Miami.” Two cities in the hands of Democrats, accused by the future president of laxity with regard to illegal immigration to the United States.
This source spoke after the publication of a Wall Street Journal investigation according to which the future American administration plans to launch a large-scale operation in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday. The newspaper, citing four people familiar with the preparations, said the planned operation in Chicago would last a week and that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency would deploy between 100 and 200 agents there.
“The largest deportation operation”
The source interviewed by Reuters refuted the information according to which agents would be specially sent to Chicago. The president-elect's transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, Tom Homan, former director of the ICE agency, declared on the American channel Fox News that there would be actions “across the country”.
The first measures taken as soon as the new American business administration is not strictly speaking a surprise. The issue of immigration was, in fact, at the center of Donald Trump's electoral campaign before his election to the presidency of the United States on November 5.
-An inauguration under a polar cold
Donald Trump will be sworn in on Monday as the 47th president of the United States inside the Capitol and not on the steps outside, as is tradition. This hasn't happened since 1985 and Ronald Reagan's inauguration. The fault is the polar cold which is hitting the east of the country. Freezing temperatures since the thermometer should show -12 degrees, all accompanied by a cold wind. It was Donald Trump himself who announced it on his Truth Social network. “I decided that the inauguration speech would be delivered in the Capitol Rotunda, as for Ronald Reagan in 1985, already due to very cold weather,” he wrote.
“Shortly after my inauguration, we will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States,” he said in January 2024. We therefore expect waves of expulsions of thousands of people in the coming weeks. Undocumented migrants who entered the United States illegally.
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