“Deportation flights have begun.” With those words, the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has announced the Mass deportation of millions of undocumented In the United States, one of Donald Trump’s campaign promises.
In a message through the social network ‘X’, Leavitt has reported this event and sent a warning: “If you enter the United States illegally, you will face serious consequences.” Deportees can be seen in an Indian row, handcuffed and climbing a military plane at the Biggs base, in El Paso (Texas).
In these first two flights they went between 75 and 80 Guatemalans that had been previously arrested by the border patrol, according to sources from the National Security Department cited by the CNN.
Two Flights Guatemala address
In this way, Trump shows that he is serious with the promise he repeated so many times during the electoral campaign. The test is not only how fast the deportation has begun to be carried out, but the Use of military aircraft, something unusual. In fact, in the deportations of Joe Biden’s time, immigrants were returned in rented aircraft.
Of the Texas Air Base Two flights have left. In the first one there were 79 people (31 women and 48 men), all of legal age and has reached midnight on Friday (local time) to an aerial base of the Guatemalan Air Force. The second flight that has also departed from Texas has landed in the morning, although there is still no data from the Guatemalans who were traveling.
The vice president of Guatemala, Karin Herrera, has been present in the second flight and announced the shelter opening in the country before the possible massive arrival of deportees in the coming weeks. He has also announced the home return program with which it is intended reinforce social and economic assistance To these people.
Trump intends to deport 11 million people
At the moment, they have been sent Four military aircraft to San Diego and the step to accelerate the deportation process with capacity to transport 102 and 124 passengers. As promised by Trump, he intends to deport 11 million people in his four years of mandate.