Throwing hard criminals out, says Trump as US admn goes ahead with deportation flights

Within just a little over four days after Donald Trump took over as the 47th President of the United States, the country has begun deportation flights for illegal immigrants using military aircraft.

Mass deportation of illegal immigrants has been one of the major poll promises of the Trump campaign. As part of it, Trump has also signed an executive order declaring that future children born to undocumented immigrants would no longer be treated as citizens.

The Department of Defense said two of its aircraft conducted repatriation flights from the US to Guatemala.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later told reporters that Trump’s border policies have already led to the arrest of 538 illegal immigrants and deportation flights using military aircraft, the first since President Dwight Eisenhower, have begun.

“Deportation flights have begun. President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences,” she wrote on X.

Talking to reporters in North Carolina, President Trump said, “Deportation is going very well. We’re getting the bad, hard criminals out. These are murderers. These are people that have been as bad as you get, as bad as anybody you’ve seen. We’re taking them out first.” According to Congressman Tony Gonzales from Texas, the Department of Defense on Friday assisted Immigration and Customs Enforcement with deporting 80 Guatemalan nationals from Biggs Army Airfield.

“Texas has been ground zero for the border crisis and will be ground zero for deportation operations. In four days, President Trump has done more to protect our country than Biden did in four years,” he said.