Trump does not have been in power for a week and have already arrested 538 illegal migrants in the US.

United States authorities They arrested 538 “illegal immigrants” y They expelled “hundreds”in a deportation operation presented by the White House as “the largest” in history, a few days after the beginning of the second mandate of Donald Trump.

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The Republican president promised to act against irregular immigration during his campaign and, after assuming the presidency at the beginning of the week, said the state of national emergency on the border with Mexico and signed a save of migratory decrees.

“The Trump administration arrested 538 illegal criminal immigrants” and “deported hundreds” of them “in military planes,” said White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt, in the social network X. “The largest mass operation of Deportation in history is underway.

Trump demonized during his campaign migrants, describing them as “wild”, “animals” or “criminals”, and promised the largest deportation campaign in the history of the United States, a country where it is estimated that They live about 11 million people in irregular situation.

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On Thursday, the mayor of the city of Newark, in New Jersey, the Democrat Ras Barak Also to Citizens, without presenting a court order. ” The mayor indicated that One of the detainees is an army veteran American, an action that described as an “atrocious act and a flagrant violation” of the United States Constitution.

“Newark will not be left with crossed ones while illegally terrified the population,” Baraka added.

Trump announced on Tuesday, January 21 that his government will restore the Cover in Mexico program -A policy that implemented in its first mandate (2017-2021)-which implies that asylum seekers must wait on the Mexican side of the border while their request is processed.

The president also ended a program of his predecessor Joe Biden aimed at offering legal ways for asylum application for people who fled violence and denounced having suffered political persecution. This measure affects many people who fled from countries in Central America and South America.

Trump, in addition, suspended until further notice all the arrivals in the United States of refugees who requested asylum, including those who were granted.

In the decrees signed by the American tycoon there is also an executive order that seeks to restrict the right of citizenship by birth in the United States, a right enshrined in the 14th amendment of the Constitution adopted in the second half of the 19th century.

A federal judge of Seattle temporarily suspended this executive order on Thursday.

Earlier this week, Congress, dominated by Republicans, gave a green light to a law to expand the preventive imprisonment of foreigners in an irregular situation that are suspected of crimes.

In his rhetoric, Trump usually uses the word “invasion” to refer to the entry of immigrants without visa to the United States and accuses them to poison “the blood” of the country.