Thursday, November 28

Henry Cuellar, Democratic congressman, agrees to join the mass deportation of immigrants

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By Evaristo Lara

Nov 28, 2024, 3:53 PM EST

While the majority of his party colleagues intend to challenge the mass deportations of immigrants silvered by Donald Trump at the start of his administration, Henry Cuellar, Democratic congressman from Texas, announced that he will travel to Washington to report to Tom Homan, the new border czar.

During an interview with the newspaper The Hillthe Democrat who has since served as representative for the 28th congressional district of Texas, announced that he was ready to present to the Republicans in government their ideas to begin to implement the repatriation of immigrants they want and hand over the problem to Mexico.

“We can deport people quickly under Title A, we can make them stay in Mexicowe can do a lot with policies that can work immediately.

“In fact, I was communicating with Tom and we talked about meeting up sometime when I get back to DC in the next week or so, and I think we can find a lot of common ground,” he mentioned.

Henry Cuellar could begin to mark an internal division in the Democratic Party. (Credit: Mark Schiefelbein / AP)

The 69-year-old politician who In May he was charged with allegedly receiving a bribe of more than half a million dollars through his wife.in an operation that involves a Mexican bank and an oil and gas company controlled by Azerbaijan, reiterated doing everything on its part to help expel from the country the people who, with definitive repatriation orders, are still in the American Union.

“Tom knows what it takes to work, and I can share my experience with him. It’s interesting that Tom and I are talking. We may not agree on everything, but we certainly We can agree to quickly deport criminals, national security agents, the 1.3 million people who have a final deportation order and who are still here.

Some of those who crossed recently are the people we should pay attention to. Therefore, there are many things that I think we can do,” he warned.

Henry Cuellar even He claimed to have spoken to other Democrats to make them decide to take the same step and close ranks with Donald Trump’s administration.

“I told some Democrats that they can agree on the deportation of criminals. Some of them hesitated. And I mentioned to them that it would be a mistake if Democrats cannot even agree on the deportation of criminals,” he said.

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