United States authorities has arrested 538 illegal migrants and deported hundreds in a mass operation days after President Donald Trump’s second administration.
This was made know by President Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt in a statement made available to newsmen.
According to the statement, “The largest massive deportation operation in history is well underway. Promises made. Promises kept, adding that “hundreds” were deported by military aircraft.
President Trump had promised a crackdown on illegal immigration during the election campaign and began his second term with a flurry of executive actions aimed at overhauling entry to the United States.
He signed an order declaring a “national emergency” at the southern border and announced the deployment of more troops to the area while vowing to deport “criminal aliens.”
Early on Thursday, Newark city mayor Ras J. Baraka said in a statement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “raided a local establishment… detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant”.
Earlier in the week, the Republican-led US Congress green-lit a bill to expand pretrial incarceration for foreign criminal suspects.
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