The White House also plans to deport foreigners who Biden granted temporary residence

A raid from the immigration police on Thursday in a wholesale shelves in Newark (New Jersey) has raised a avalanche of questions about the limits and objectives of deportation orders subscribed by President Donald Trump on the first day of his second term. The Intervention of ICE agents (acronym for Immigration and Customs Control Service) in the Newark establishment resulted in an indeterminate number of arrests, between undocumented and Americans, including an army veteran. To the confusion around this raid it is added that the White House now plans to expand its deportation plans to include 1.4 million residents with temporary permission, that is, legal, as is the case of citizens who have fled from Cuba or Venezuela.

Although it is not clear if the raid in the most populous city of New Jersey was obey Detained of citizens with papers, recognized by the agency, as well as, supposedly, of others with temporary residence status, it suggests that, beyond the confessed objective of deporting only the undocumented with the undocumented background with a criminal record – many including many to the Waiting for judgment -, the scope of the announced massive deportation of irregular will also include the million length of foreigners beneficiaries of a temporary residence permit granted during the mandate of Democrat Joe Biden. Activists and lawyer groups fear that mass expulsion also reaches the thousands of Afghan and ucranios refugees in the US since 2021 and 2022, respectively.

Under a memorandum signed on Thursday night by the interim chief of the Department of National Security, to which the newspaper has had access The New York Timesthe Republican Administration has instructed ICE officials to quickly deport migrants who were allowed to temporarily enter the US thanks to the two Biden mandate programs, the CBP One application, to ask for asylum, and an initiative which made possible the entry of certain migrants fleeing from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti. They all enjoyed a residence permit of up to two years known as parole, suppressed by Trump.

The memorandum offers migratory agents a road map on how to proceed with their identification, detention and expulsion, powers that for a long time were used only at the border with Mexico to hot expelled migrants and who, according to the complaint of the mayor De Newark, deployed on Thursday’s raid, made according to the mayor, Ras Baraka, without court order.

The White House, meanwhile, has confirmed that deportations have begun, through publication in social network X, owned by Elon Musk, two photographs that show paths of individuals addressing military airplanes and Karoline Leavitt’s message, press secretary, secretary of the press of the White House: “Deportation flights have begun. President Trump is sending a firm and clear message to everyone: if you enter illegally in the United States of America, you will face serious consequences. ” Leavitt’s publication does not detail what the output airports are the number or the identity of the deportees, although in the images, where they appear on their backs, it can be seen that they are young men and who are handcuffed.

In another message posted on Thursday on its X account, the ICE encrypted in 538 the interpellations (people to whom they were asked to identify) and in 373 the arrest orders, although without specifying in how much time or in what places. According to the republican administration’s plans, the first blow to irregular immigration was planned on Monday in Chicago, one of the shelter cities, such as New York, governed by the Democrats, and where on Christmas Eve a macroalbergue was evicted with capacity with capacity For almost 2,000 migrants. The second stage of the great expulsion was going to take place, according to Republican congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, in New York, but the complaint of the mayor of Newark, a Democrat, raises doubts about the calendar.

The execution of the new immigration policy is also revealing the deep divisions among the Democrats. From the critical and combative position of African American Baraka, who has always underlined his protection policies to foreigners, to the interested acquiescence of the New York councilor, Eric Adams, who has been prone to secondary, or at least allow, actions of the ICE in an attempt to congratate Trump for pure political calculation (ADAMS is accused of corruption and will be tried in April). The closure of the Chicago shelter has also been interpreted preventively, so as not to oppose the inevitable.

The mayor of Newark has been one of the first local officials in the United States to pronounce on a concrete raid after the start of the new administration. In 2017, he signed an executive order that consolidated the status of sanctuary or refuge of the city, and firmly opposed Trump’s immigration policies during this mandate. On the opposite of Adams, who has signed up for his willingness to collaborate with ICE agents in New York, although since the eighties the city is theoretically obliged to provide a roof to the newcomers.

Of the 11 million immigrants estimated they lived in the United States illegally or with temporary status in 2022, around 44% did it in states with “sanctuary” laws, which limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. That figure does not include those who live in cities and shelter counties in places without a state law, such as New Mexico.

The confusing incident of Newark, who have only denounced the mayor and a representative, also a Democrat, of the district, was confirmed by the ICE. In a statement, a spokesman said that agents “can meet US citizens while doing field work and can request identification to establish the identity of an individual, as happened during a selective application operation in a workplace today [por este jueves] In Newark. ” The mayor, however, called constitutional abuse the fact that one of the detainees was “a veteran of the US army who had to endure the indignity of seeing questioned the legitimacy of his military documentation.” “Newark will not be left with crossed ones while the people are illegally terrified,” Baraka said in a statement.

ICE, however, is investigating the incident. The White House spokeswoman confirmed in X the number of arrests provided by the immigration authority, describing all those arrested as “illegal immigrant criminals.” Although ICE is being very sparse in the details, Leavitt said that among the detainees there are members of a gang flee from a Venezuelan prison and people convicted of sexual crimes; Theoretically, the type of individuals that Trump’s transition team said they were going to be deported first.

Part of the information published by Leavitt was collected by the ultraconservative chain Fox News, with the headline: “Trump’s ICE catches sexual aggressors of minors among the more than 530 illegal immigrants captured in one day.” Local media differ, however, from the temporary reference and raise to almost 500 the number of undocumented detainees in sanctuary cities, including New York and New Jersey, between Tuesday and Wednesday. Immigrants had search orders for pending crimes, according to sources.