Once he won the election, Donald Trump confirmed that he intended to declare a national emergency and use the US military in some way to assist in their plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
Less than a month before the Republican administration begins, uncertainty in the immigration field is experienced with intensity and the director of the Migration, Remittances and Development program of the Inter-American Dialogue organization, Manuel Orozco, said that The future Donald Trump Administration could deport 150,000 people from Mexico and Central America with irregular immigration status.
“My projection is that around 150,000 people would be deported to Mexico and Central America alone,” said the also member of the Center for International Development at Harvard University and principal advisor to the International Fund for Agricultural Development during a forum.
According to the EFE agency, Some 65,000 of the 150,000 deportees will be Mexicans, estimated the expert at the forum, called “Trump 2.0: Perspectives and challenges for Central America, Cuba and Venezuela,” organized by the organizations Expediente Abierto and Government and Political Analysis.
Orozco based his thesis on the fact that although deportation was one of the fundamental issues of Trump’s campaign, once in power he will have a “a little more pragmatic” position.
“The core point is not to determine the probability that the promise will be fulfilled, but rather how that promise will be executed,” he explained.
In the context, The named “border czar,” Tom Homan, has said that undocumented immigrants who are considered a threat to national security or public safety will be a priority, without offering more details.
While the incoming vice president, JD Vance, said that deportations could begin with a million people, although he did not give details of what the process will be like.
In this context, Manuel Orozco pointed out three factors that the Trump Administration will have to weigh to carry out the deportations, among them the human and economic resources it has to execute the law in accordance with the deportation of people who are in irregular status in the country. country.
Another factor is that the team surrounding Trump “is quite heterogeneous” and they agree “on a punitive perspective on irregular migration” more inclined to close the borders, prevent more people from reaching the US, and gradually expel those who are in irregular status, he noted.
Orozco observed that the “bucocratic weight on immigration management will be very great” for Trump, because the Joe Biden Administration “was a period where, in the last 25 years, the largest migratory wave that reached the border occurred.”
In the last four years, almost 12 million people have entered the United States irregularly, and that number is an enormous challenge for Trump, he reasoned.
The expert clarified that this number of people does not only include Mexicans and Central Americans, but also the universe and to a large extent from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Ukraine, Russia and China.
*With information from EFE.
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