“The most important mass deportation operation in history is underway,” wrote the spokesperson, adding: “Promises held”.
Donald Trump was committed to a vast offensive against illegal migrants during his campaign and he started his second term on Monday with a series of decrees intended to stop their influx in the United States.
He thus declared “a state of national emergency” on the southern border, with Mexico, and announced the deployment of troops while promising the expulsion of “criminal foreigners”.
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Shortly before the announcement of the White House, the mayor of Newark, Ras J. Baraka, said on Thursday in a statement that “agents (immigration services) had made a descent into a local establishment (… ), decree of residents and also citizens, without showing a mandate “, in this city near New York.
The same day of Trump’s inauguration, the American Senate with a republican majority had adopted a bill which requires detention by the federal police of migrants in an irregular situation and suspected of certain crimes
First trip
In a sudden turnaround, Trump said, in an interview broadcast Thursday evening by the Fox News channel, that he could finally give up the customs duties he threatened.
“We have very great power over China, these are customs duties, and they don’t want it, and I would prefer not to have to use it,” he said.
Trump, however, said on Monday that customs duties of 10% on all Chinese imports could come into force on February 1.
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In the same interview, Trump said he was eager to get back in touch with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, “an intelligent guy”, whom he had met three times during his first mandate, but without any advance in nuclear power .
The most followed part of his first trip as 47th President of the United States, which will also take him to Nevada (West), will be the one that will take place in California, whose governor wants to lead the “resistance” to the President, who threatened to cut federal aid to fight fires in Los Angeles.
-The North Carolina had been affected in October, in the middle of the presidential campaign, by 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.
“Abandoned”
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) dealing with their own problems,” the American president told Fox News.
In this same interview, he also repeated his threats against the Californian authorities: “I do not think that we should give anything to California until they let water from northern South “of the State to fight against the fires in Los Angeles.
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This climato-skeptic said that California lacked water because of democratic environmental policies.
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, who treated him as a “idiot” in his interview on Wednesday in Fox News.
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”.
California, with its progressive customs in terms of customs and its initiatives to combat climate change, has long been in the sight of the hard right.