Trump government: hundreds of criminal migrants deported

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Lerato Khumalo

USA

Trump government: hundreds of criminal migrants deported

Updated on 24.01.2025 – 10:07 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.

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According to its own statements, the US government under Donald Trump has started with mass deportations. (Archive image) (Source: Gregory Bull/AP/dpa/dpa pictures)

Donald Trump had announced mass deportations from migrants. According to his spokeswoman, they started a few days after taking office. The previous numbers do not necessarily confirm this.

The new US government of President Donald Trump has claimed to be with the announced mass deportations of migrants. 538 criminals entered illegally and hundreds were deported with military aircraft, said government spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on X. However, the numbers are not necessarily significantly higher than that of the recent past: the immigration authority ICE reported more than 170,000 arrests for 2023 – an average of around 467 a day.

“The largest mass deportation campaign in history is in full swing,” wrote Leavitt. “Promise. Promise kept.”

After taking office on Monday, Trump had signed various decrees to contain irregular migration. Under the Republican, ICE is allowed to arrest migrants without valid papers in sensitive places such as churches, schools or hospitals – a departure from the protection regulations that were under his predecessor Joe Biden.

In communities with a high proportion of migrants there is afraid of the “biggest deportation program in American history” that Trump had announced in the election campaign. Trump’s attempt to restrict the right to US members of the state in the country (“Birthright Citizenship”) for certain groups, but initially blocked a judge in the state of Washington on Thursday.

The mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, announced that there was an ICE raid in the city near New York on Thursday. Agents of the authority had arrested both residents without papers and US citizens without submitting a judicial decision. The violation of the constitution. “Newark will not stand by and see how people are illegally terrorized,” said Baraka.