London: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, deported 37,660 people in his first month in office, significantly less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns recorded in the last year of the administration of Joe Biden, according to data recently published by the United States National Security Department.
A senior official of the Trump administration and experts said deportations were prepared to increase in the coming months, since Trump opens new roads to increase arrests and removals.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said the deportation numbers of the Biden era seemed “artificially high” due to the highest levels of illegal immigration.
Trump campaigned for the White House that promised to deport millions of illegal immigrants in the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States. However, the initial figures suggest that Trump could have difficulty matching the highest deportation rates during the last year of the Biden administration, when a large number of migrants were caught crossing illegally, which makes them easier to deport.
The interim director of the application of immigration and customs of the United States, Caleb Vitello, was reallocated on Friday due to the inability to meet expectations, said a Trump official and two other people familiar with the matter.
The deportation effort could take off in several months, helped by Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama and Costa Rica agreements to take deportees from other nations, the sources said.
The US army has helped more than a dozen military deportation flights to Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Ecuador, Peru and India. The Trump administration has also led Venezuelan immigrants to the US Naval Base. In Guantanamo Bay. Trump said at the end of January that his administration would prepare to stop up to 30,000 migrants there despite the rejection of civil liberty groups.
Deportations assisted by the army could grow taking into account the vast budget of the Pentagon and the ability to increase resources, according to Adam Isacson, a security expert from the Washington office in the group of experts in Latin America.
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Meanwhile, the administration is moving to facilitate the arrest of deportable immigrants without criminal record and stop more people with final deportation orders.
Last month, the Department of Justice issued a memorandum that allowed ICE officers to arrest migrants to the United States immigration courts, raising a Biden era policy that limited such arrests.
On Wednesday, the United States Department of State appointed Train of Aragua from Venezuela and seven other gangs and criminal posters as terrorist organizations. According to the United States Immigration Law, the alleged gang members designated as terrorists and people with ties with the groups could be deportable.
The Trump administration is also taking out the agents of the ICE investigation arm, the Department of Justice, the IRS and the State Department to help with arrests and investigations.
Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policies at the Immigration Studies Center, who favors the lowest immigration levels, said these research agents could help take energetic measures against employers who hire workers without legal status and people who have deportation orders Finals
“Those are all more difficult cases,” said Vaughan. “In the case of an operation in the workplace, it has planned to do a lot, some research that precedes it, all of which takes a long time.”
During Trump’s first three weeks in office, ICE arrested about 14,000 people, said Tom Tom Homan border last week. That amounts to 667 per day, twice the average last year, but at the pace for a quarter of a million arrests annually, not millions.
The arrests with ice increased to around 800-1,200 per day during Trump’s first week in office, then they fell when the detention centers were filled and the officers increased to attack the cities that returned home.
“It will be like turning a Superker during the first months,” Isacson said. “The civil part of the United States government can only do a lot.”
During Trump’s first month in office, ICE doubled the arrests of people with criminal charges or convictions compared to the same period a year ago, according to the data provided by DHS.
While arrests have increased, ice arrest space remains a limiting factor. The agency currently has around 41,100 detainees, with funds to have 41,500.
According to the agency’s data, some 19,000 of those detainees were arrested by ICE, while around 22,000 were collected by the border authorities of the United States, according to data from the agency published in mid -February.
Of the 19,000 arrested for ICE, around 2,800 had no criminal record, according to the agency’s same data. The figure was 858 in mid -January, before Trump assumed the position.
The American Senate led by Republicans approved on Friday a bill to provide $ 340 billion for four years for border security, deportations, energy deregulation and additional military spending. But the party remains divided on how to advance with the financing plan, with Trump pressing so that the funds are combined with tax cuts.
