The first deportation flights of illegal immigrants to prison at Guantanamo Base in Cuba have already begun," said White home spokesperson Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday. The mark is to scope 30,000 migrants who have committed serious crimes. Under force from the United States, Mexico has taken action to block human and drug smuggling to the United States.
– I can confirm that the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo with illegal migrants began today said Leavitt during an interview for Fox Business television.
– President Trump, (boss of the Pentagon) Pete Hegseth and (boss of the national safety department) Kristi Noem is already fulfilling this promise to exploit the possible of Guantanamo for illegal criminals who have violated our national immigration law and subsequently committed appalling crimes against legitimate American citizens here in the country She added.
The Ombudsman did not uncover the details of the flights or how many immigrants were transported to Cuba. Minister Hegseth had already announced last week that the operation to grow the Guantanamo detention centre so that it could accommodate 30,000 people was started and said that they had the worst of the worst criminals.
However, he pointed out that they would be held there temporarily until they were deported to their countries. This contradicted president Trump's earlier words, which justified the request to send migrants to Guantanamo wishing to guarantee that they did not return to the US.
– Some of them are so bad that we don't even trust another countries to hold them due to the fact that we don't want them to come back. Then we'll send them to Guantanamo. This will immediately double our capabilities... This is where it's hard to get out. said Trump during the signing of the memorandum on this case.
Guantanamo had already served as a centre for migrants during the presidency of Bill Clinton in the 1990s, but at that time refugees from Haiti and Cuba intercepted while attempting to cross the sea to the US.
Leavitt besides said that after a Monday visit to El Salvador, the U.S. Secretary of State Marc Rubio, president of this country Nayib Bukele agreed to accept deported migrants not only from El Salvador, but besides the prison of US deported criminals from another countries, including members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
The U.S. Department of State stated in a press release that president El Salvador "in an extraordinary motion that no country has always done before has offered to put in its prisons dangerous American criminals, including US citizens and legal residents." Trump himself spoke of the anticipation of deporting U.S. citizens to another countries ("for a tiny fee") to service sentences there, although experts consider the thought illegal.
Mexico deploys at the border of troops to halt smuggling into the US
Mexico has launched a deployment operation at the U.S. border of 10,000 soldiers and gendarmes who, under the agreement between both countries, are to halt the smuggling of fentanyl and illegal migration – announced Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday.
Sending additional forces to the border is part of an agreement between the Mexican authorities and the U.S. president Donald Trump administration, in which he suspended for a period the introduction of 25% customs on Mexican goods.
– They've already started sending them. said Sheinbaum at a press conference. She added that the relocation of forces would support action against crime at the northern border and ensured that "it would not deprive the remainder of the country of its safety".
According to Mexican media, 990 National defender officers were transported from the south to the north on Tuesday morning. Over 6,000 more gendarmes are to be sent to localities on the border by land road. Northwards, 2,7,000 soldiers were besides sent from Mexico City.
Trump announced the imposition of 25% tariffs on goods imported into the US from Mexico, which justified the illegal influx of migrants and fentanyl – a synthetic opioid, tied in the United States with tens of thousands of deaths per year. The president besides pointed to the negative trade balance of his country with Mexico.
On Monday, both parties informed of the suspension of these duties for 1 period under the agreement reached. During this time, negotiations with US Secretary of State Marc Rubio and the heads of finance and trade departments, Scott Bessent and Howard Lutnick are to begin.
Source: PAP
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