The American Congress notably adopted the first bill of Donald Trump's second presidency, which attacks illegal immigration.
Published on 23/01/2025 07:25
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Donald Trump has intensified his measures against immigration. Two days after his return to the White House, the American president spoke from the Oval Office with Sean Hannity, one of the star hosts of Fox News, Wednesday January 22. The Republican, who is committed to expelling millions of undocumented people from the United States, assured that “terrorists by the thousands” were present in the country because of the border policies of the Joe Biden administration, considered lax. And in particular because countries like Venezuela “took their street gangs and moved them to the United States”he said. “We’ll take care of it.”launched the American president.
-Earlier, its spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, announced that the army would deploy “1 500 additional soldiers at the border” with Mexico by executive order of the President. Soldiers who will be added to the more than 2,000 soldiers already present along this southern border.
Furthermore, the American Congress adopted, on Wednesday, the first bill of Donald Trump's second presidency, which – as a symbol – attacks illegal immigration. The text requires the automatic detention, by federal law enforcement, of illegal immigrants who have been convicted or indicted for certain crimes. It was adopted by the Republican-majority House of Representatives with 263 votes for and 156 against.
