▲ Donald Trump and Jeffrey Sprecher, president of the New York Stock Exchange, yesterday at the opening of the stock market.Photo Ap
Reuters and The Independent
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, December 13, 2024, p. 20
Washington. President-elect Donald Trump declared that he will use the military to the full extent of the law to support his mass deportation campaign, in an interview with the magazine time published yesterday; He commented that his plan is to expel a record number of undocumented immigrants.
When the magazine asked about the law that generally prevents the use of the armed forces in national affairs, Trump said that the entry of foreigners without documents amounts to an invasion that must be stopped.
In the interview of Time, regarding the magnate’s designation as Person of the Year. he explained: We will get the National Guard and go as far as the laws allow. Trump, a Republican, won re-election in November by portraying migrants as dangerous criminals and promising a broad repression of legal and irregular migration, including mass deportations, for which he plans to use federal government resources and declare a national emergency to end to unlock funds, the British news agency Reuters reported in November.
Both the Republican and Democratic governments have used National Guard troops in conjunction with the Border Patrol, but they have not been used to detain undocumented immigrants. The future Trump administration plans to commission the military in a similar support role, said the czar incoming border guard Tom Homan told Fox News on Sunday.
We would like (the Department of Defense) to help us in many areas, such as transportation and infrastructure construction, intelligence and targetingHoman declared. But an immigration officer will make the arrests.
Trump did not rule out building detention centers for deportation purposes, but said his administration would aim to return them quickly, limiting the need for extra infrastructure. I don’t want them sitting in camps for the next 20 years. I want them out of the country and their nations have to accept them back.he explained.
Permanent program
On Sunday, the Republican reiterated to NBC News that his goal is to return all undocumented foreigners under a program that lasts the four years of his term; a massive undertaking that would affect millions of families and harm companies that depend on those workers, such as agriculture.
In January 2022 there were 11 million people with irregular immigration status, according to a report from the Department of Homeland Security. In this context, Homan threatened officials in the third largest city in the United States, Chicago, with judicial accusations. if not (they get out of the way) and allow him to carry out his mass expulsion plans.
