First flights with deportees
Promises made, promises fulfilled! There are flights with deportees, while the Trump government intensify the offensive of the border security in the election campaign.
They need more planes.
The Trump government started this week with its promised deportations of illegal immigrants, but senior deputy staff chef of the White House Stephen Miller said on Friday that more planes are needed to speed up the process.
Miller told reporters that Immigration and Customs enforcement (ICE) Was impeded in his ability to deport illegal migrants due to a lack of aircraft and the administration tries to protect enough aircraft from half a dozen sources, per Bloomberg.
Ice Raids already took place in Tuesday and press secretary Karoline Leavitt released photos of people who board C-17s on Friday morning, and announced that “Deportation flights had begun,”. One of the photos was taken at Biggs Army Airfield in Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, the US and it was one of the two flights that had left for Guatemala on Thursday at 5 pm.
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt released this image on Friday and wrote on X that “deportation flights have started.” A Mississippi legislator proposes to pay bodies hunters to help deport illegal immigrants. (White House)
Custom and border protection sources told Fox News that the plane in the image had 80 people. A third flight, on the way to Mexico, never left after Mexico refused to give permission for the landing, an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Fox News.
But on Friday Miller suggested that the administration wanted to scale up the activities and was investigating aircraft, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Ministry of Defense (DOD) to do this.
“You clearly have DHS Air Activa, you have DOD Air Assets, you have air assets from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, you have commercial air assets, you have charter air activa, so each that can be used to carry out a legal deportation, “Miller said,” said Miller, by Bloomberg.
“Border Tsar” Tom Homan On Friday, ABC News said that the administration will use military aircraft every day to perform the operation.
About 2,000 illegal immigrants were deported to Mexico on Thursday, both on the ground and in the air. Moreover, Mexico held around 5,000 migrants within its limits, Fox News reported.
When demanding the need for more planes, Leavitt said the Trump administration Uses both military and non-military aircraft to complete this mission.
Deputy Staff Chef of the White House Stephen Miller said on Friday that more planes are needed to accelerate the deportation process of illegal migrants. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
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“In a week, the Trump government has already facilitated a record number of illegal migrant portion flights and the administration uses both military and non-military aircraft to complete this mission,” Leavitt said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Joe Biden Dozens of millions of illegal criminals in the country allowed, and to retain and deport as much as possible, the congress must make a reconciliation law with financing for border enforcement, detention centers and deportation efforts. “
The administration has taken a number of actions to secure the border, including the use of the army, restarting the wall construction and the termination of conditional programs from the Biden era.
The Ministry of Interior Security has issued a whole series of memos since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, ordering assessments of conditional release and expanding the ability of officials to quickly deport illegal immigrants from the US who have recently arrived. Those memos were signed by acting secretary Benjamine Huffman.
Ice attacks started this week under President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)
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In the meantime, Miller also said that the administration would use different tools to remove the humanitarian conditional release granted to enter the country if they would otherwise not have permission.
“There are digital footprints, there are financial footprints, there is routine intelligence for law enforcement,” he said. “There is a wide range of tools that we have to identify and remove.”
According to Bloomberg, former President Joe Biden refused to use military planes. His administration often used commercial aircraft deportmigrants.
Adam Shaw and Louis Casiano from Fox News have contributed to this report.
