Donald Trump would begin his macro raids of migrants next week, according to the WSJ

The elected president of USADonald Trump, and his team plan a macro roundup of migrants in Chicago for next Tuesday, the day after his inauguration, as reported this Friday by The Wall Street Journal.

According to this information, the incoming Government will send between 100 and 200 immigration agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) to Chicago for this operation.

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The Chicago election responds to the high number of migrants residing in the city, as well as the media impact of doing so in one of the great Democratic urban fiefdoms.

Tom Homan, Trump’s border ‘czar’, already anticipated weeks ago that deportations would begin on “day 1” and that Chicago would be the first target.

“If the mayor of Chicago doesn’t want to help, he can step aside. But if he prevents us from acting, if he deliberately hides or covers up an illegal immigrant, I will prosecute him,” Homan said.

Trump was elected president with mass deportations of migrants as one of his main promises.

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The conservative newspaper New York Post also published this Friday that, in addition to Chicago, New York will be one of the first places where Trump’s macro-raids will take place.

Meanwhile, the United States Department of Homeland Security The United States affirmed this Friday that the country’s southern border is safer than four years ago due to the measures of President Joe Biden’s Administration, such as increasing the number of agents in the area, applying immigration law, expanding its work with other authorities and strengthen technology to detect contraband.

The secretary of the federal agency, Alejandro Mayorkas, released the data for 2024 – and reviewed the four years three days after the arrival of Donald Trump to the Presidency – which reflect a “significant” general decrease in border crossings , including a decline of more than 60% among ports of entry along the border between May and December.

“Encounters between ports of entry in November and December were at their lowest level since August 2020, and recent monthly encounter levels have been below the 2019 monthly average,” as a result of an executive order from President Biden, June 2024, which drastically restricted asylum applications on the border with Mexico, he assured.

Migrants and activists, on alert

Migrants, activists and religious associations remain on alert at one of the main border crossings between Mexico and the United States, Ciudad Juárez, in the state of Chihuahua, on the eve of Donald Trump assuming the presidency of that country, on the 20th. January, and make concrete his warnings of mass deportations.

Three days before Trump assumes the presidency of the United States again, fear and uncertainty have taken over the migrants who remain on Mexico’s northern border.

With a marked anti-immigrant discourse, Trump’s statements have generated concern among migrants hoping to cross legally and the organizations that provide them with support.

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“We feel disconcerted, because there are many people waiting for months. We don’t really know what is going to happen to them, some have thought about approaching the bridge to see if they will open the border, there is a lot of desperation,” Cristina Coronado Flores, coordinator, told EFE. of the Ministry for Migrants of the National Society of Saint Columban and noted that the current situation is one of “confusion and anguish.”

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Uncertainty, he said, is also pushing migrants to make risky decisions.

“In their desperation, they look for false exits, we are concerned for their safety, because in their search to enter they approach the river and are chased by organized crime groups,” he added.