“In Colombia they accepted almost immediately”: Trump talks about tension with the US

The president of USADonald Trump, highlighted on Monday the “hundreds of illegal criminal immigrants” deported during their first days of mandate, including, he said, members of the transnational organization Train of Aragua and the Mara Salvatrucha gang.

Trump closed on Monday the first day of an annual conference of Republican congressmen held at his hotel in Doral, neighboring city of Miami and south of Florida, where he has reviewed the first executive and political orders that he has implemented, including the withdrawal of the United States of the Paris Agreement and the abolition in the federal administration of equity and gender programs, in pursuit of a “meritocracy” return.

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But there has been a topic that has implied a good stretch of the speech of more than an hour that it has offered in Florida has been that of the measures against immigration that it has launched and the deportations of hundreds of “criminal immigrants”, many of which they are repeat offenders.

“They are more violent than our own criminals,” said the Republican, who added that he is analyzing the possibility of establishing the death penalty for the undocumented people who commit murders.

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The American immigration authorities have arrested at least 2,382 undocumented immigrants in the first week of the Republican and studied 1,797 arrest warrants against citizens likely to be deported, according to official figures.

Trump talks about crisis with Colombia

Trump also referred to the crisis raised over the weekend with his counterpart from Colombia, Gustavo Petro, for the refusal of accepting two repatriation flights, before what the United States announced the imposition of general tariffs of 25%, among others measures. Hours later, the White House announced that the Colombian Executive agreed with the terms.

“In Colombia they accepted almost immediately. He (Petro) said: ‘This is not a way of treating people.’ You should say that these are murderers, drug traffickers, gang members, the hardest people you have ever met or seen. What Would you seem to be a pilot of that plane? “Trump ironized.

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The president said that he is working with Congress in a bill in order to allocate funds “to totally and permanently restore the sovereign borders of the United States once and for all.”

This project, he added, should include financing for “a record increase in border security personnel” and bonuses for the staff of the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE, in English) and for its operating arm, the border patrol. “

“The United States is respected again,” said Trump – not to mention Colombia – and added that “yesterday (this Sunday) we make clear to each country in the world that they will receive their criminals, illegal migrants (…) If not, they will pay a very high economic price. “