To supporters on Sunday (19 January), the US president-elect once again spoke about the “largest deportation campaign in history”
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump (Republican Party), promised to intensely repress immigration in the country. The statement was made during a speech to supporters on Sunday (19 January 2025). Trump’s official inauguration will be this Monday (January 20).
Trump repeated what he promised during the presidential campaign, in which he said he would promote the largest deportation campaign in United States history.
The Republican plans to edit more than focused on immigration, which would cost around US$100 billion to the North American coffers. According to the news agency one of these measures would be to restore the “Remain in Mexico” (“Remain in Mexico”, in free translation), a policy that forces non-Mexican citizens seeking asylum in the United States to wait in Mexico for their trials.
Furthermore, according to the Trump will declare a state of emergency on the US-Mexico border and intends to classify Mexican drug trafficking cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations”.
“This is the largest political movement in American history, and 75 days ago, we achieved the most epic political victory the country has ever seen. Starting tomorrow [2ª feira, 20.jan], I will act quickly to fix any crisis this country is facing”, exclaimed Trump, in what was the first major public appearance in Washington DC since the speech on January 6, 2021, which culminated in the invasion of the US Capitol.
The Republican also promised that he will “exclude culture army radical” and order the military to build a missile defense system in the USA. According to the president-elect did not give details of how this would be done.
CONCERN ABOUT MASS DEPORTATION
Diplomatic representatives from 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean issued a message on Friday (17 January 2025) in which they stated “serious concern” with possible mass deportations. The note does not mention any country.
They signed the text (in Spanish – PDF – 25 kB) Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and Venezuela.
“We call on all countries in the hemisphere to conduct their actions in accordance with international law, human rights and domestic legislation in the management of human mobility, with a humanitarian approach, particularly in the face of the threat of mass deportations”, the text reads.
100 DECREES
On January 8, Trump took actions, which relax deportation rules and tighten border shock policies, in a closed meeting with senators at the Capitol, according to the news agency .
According to the digital newspaper Axiosamong Trump’s proposals are:
- Title 42: implement the rule, which came into force in 2020, during Trump’s first term. The measure gives the government the power to automatically expel undocumented immigrants who try to enter the country and deny political asylum. THE Title 42 It’s based on a 1944 law called the Public Health Service Act, which gave U.S. health officials emergency powers to prevent the spread of disease. The government at the time justified the measure as a way to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the country;
- US x Mexico border: expand the wall on the border between the two countries, a project that remained unfinished and was one of the main policies adopted by Trump during his time in the White House;
- immigrants: Requiring them to apply for asylum in other countries or remain in Mexico instead of entering the U.S. while their applications are reviewed by the government.
