(Washington) The head of the massive expulsion policy of immigrants in an irregular situation wanted by American president Donald Trump, Tom Homan, assumed the possibility of arrests in schools or churches on Sunday.
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The Department of Internal Security has canceled this week a directive of the previous administration which waged the action of border police officers and the Federal Agency for Immigration Control (ICE) around so -called “areas” sensitive ”, including schools and places of worship.
“Criminals will no longer be able to escape arrest by hiding in American schools and churches,” said the department, ensuring that they were proud of the “common sense” of these federal agents.
In an interview on Sunday to the ABC channel, Tom Homan notably stressed that “many” members of the Salvadoral Criminal Gang MS-13, which rages in particular in the United States, were “aged 14 to 17”.
“ICE agents must have the power to decide that, if a threat to national security or public security exists in one of these places, they have the opportunity to make an arrest,” he argued .
Tom Homan invoked the need for the deterrent character of the repression of illegal immigration. “If we do not show that there are consequences at the illegal entrance to the territory, we will never solve the border problem,” he said.
-Several managers of Catholic institutions have been alarmed in a statement on Thursday intentions displayed by the Trump administration.
“Transforming places of care, healing and comfort into places of fear and uncertainty for those who are in need, by undergoing confidence between pastors, caregivers, educators and those to whom they lend assistance will not make Our safer neighborhoods, ”they write.
Vice-president JD Vance criticized in an interview on Sunday in CBS the Conference of Catholic bishops, accusing him of “not having been a good partner in the immigration policy of common sense for which the Americans voted”.
Tom Homan has also implicitly recognized that the expulsion statistics of this first week of the Trump administration – around 500 per day – had not yet reached the level referred to in the long term, insisting on the need for additional means.
“We are going to need more beds for the ICE, at least 100,000. The congress must meet quickly to give us the money we need to secure this border, “he said.
