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The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) detained 308 immigrants considered “serious criminals” on Tuesday, the first full day under Donald Trump’s mandate, according to what they said this Wednesday. Tom Homan, border “czar” of the new government.
“Some of them were rapists, some were murderers, some had abused children. ICE is doing its job. He is prioritizing, just as the president said he would. “He is doing his job excellently on the ground and will continue to do so every day,” he said on Fox News.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in charge of enforcing immigration laws, has not yet provided information about these alleged arrests.
Trump took office this Monday and emphasized then that he was going to fulfill his campaign promise to carry out the largest deportation of migrants in the country’s history.
On that first day at the front, he also declared a “national emergency” on the border with which he authorized the use of military forces on the border with Mexico to “secure” it and repel “forms of invasion,” including migration to the United States. and drug trafficking.
His document also ordered authorities to “immediately deport” all people who enter the United States irregularly, advancing that hot deportations will be restored.
“Right now we are focusing on the worst,” Homan said on Fox News, noting that these are people who present a threat to national or public security and highlighting that there cannot be “strong” national security if the border is not is insured. EFE
