2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
In early April, two senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) opposed President Donald Trump's plan to carry out thousands of deportations of adults and children in a "mega raid" to be carried out. in 10 cities in the United States, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
This was revealed by the newspaper The Washington Post in a report that reveals the plan that Kirstjen Nielsen, former secretary of Homeland Security, and Ronald Vitiello, another important official of the same department, firmly opposed.
The plan was to arrest and deport the migrants and their families through expedited court proceedings, seven DHS officials revealed to the newspaper. The arrests would start with about 2,500 people and would number 10,000.
Ironically, Nielsen and Vitello were not protesting the presumable humanitarian catastrophe that this "mega-raid" would cause, says the Post, but rather because of the lack of time and resources to carry out the plan. "There was concern about how everything was being assembled too hastily, and that this could backfire by diverting resources that are critical to emergency operations taking place on the border," said a DHS official on condition of anonymity.
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White House sources assured various media that such a plan does not exist. “There are approximately 1 million undocumented immigrants with final deportation orders remaining in the United States. Enforcing these court orders is a top priority for the Administration and for ICE, and is fundamental to the integrity of the immigration system, they noted.
Be that as it may, the number of arrests along the southern border continues to rise. In April alone, 109,000 people, including women, men and children, were arrested in their attempt to cross. Of them, 60 percent are minors, according to the Post.
The vast majority of those who have crossed the border without papers in the last 18 months come from Central America and seek asylum. Those who turn themselves in to the authorities to ask for asylum remain detained in the country waiting to appear in court to plead their case.
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