From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 30, 2024, p. 20
Texas is preparing for an eventual massive deportation campaign by the next administration of magnate Donald Trump, and the state’s Republican leaders say they are ready for the entity to be a model and epicenter of anti-immigrant operations, the newspaper reported. Washington Post.
The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, and other officials, in addition to positioning themselves as the antagonists of the (Joe) Biden administrationdespite not having the powers in matters of migration control, used state tools to dramatically intensify anti-undocumented policy and legislation at the local level and spread similar narratives throughout the country, the post.
Abott intends the investment of 11 billion dollars for border control, the transportation of foreigners by bus to distant states, as well as the persecution of organizations that defend them.
Daniel Hautoum, supervising attorney for the Texas Civil Rights Project, told post that state leaders They are trying to create a federal government model that is exceptionally harsh and cruel to those who enter the United States irregularly. and that the entity is more than willing to allow the Trump administration to take over its institutions to enforce immigration laws.
The director of the Center for Migration Studies, Mark Krikori, explained that Texas will become the epicenter of federal-level operations for deportations.
It’s not just about those who recently crossed the borderbut of those who arrived in the recent four years and settled in the entity, he added.
It’s a shame that Texas taxpayers had to spend billions of dollars to do the job that (the Biden administration) didn’t do.he explained.
Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister, arrived in Palm Beach, Florida, for a meeting with the next US president, after Trump threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if those countries do not stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across the southern and northern borders of the United States.
He said that one of his first executive orders would be to impose a 25 percent tax on all products entering the United States from its two neighboring countries.
Trump called weak and dishonest to Trudeau during his first term. Trudeau said hours before his visit that he would resolve the matter by talking to Trump.
Tariff equal to inflation
The Canadian premier pointed out that Trump was elected because he promised to reduce the cost of groceries, but now he is talking about raising the cost of products by 25 percent.