White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Friday that “deportation flights have begun,” releasing photos of people boarding military aircraft.
“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.
One of the photos was taken at Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources said. The sources added that the plane in the image holds 80 people and departed for Guatemala on Thursday at 5 p.m. local time.
“We can confirm that overnight, two DOD aircraft conducted repatriation flights from the US to Guatemala,” a U.S. defense official told Fox News.
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt released this image Friday, writing on X that “deportation flights have begun.” Sources tell Fox News that this photo was taken at Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and that the aircraft departed for Guatemala.
Rep. Tony Gonazles, R-Texas. said his district “has been ground zero for the border crisis and will be ground zero for DEPORTATION operations.
“In 4 days President Trump has done more to protect our country than Biden did in 4 years,” Gonazles added on X.
Additional U.S. troops also have arrived and started putting up wire near the Ysleta Port of Entry in El Paso, the CBP told Fox News.
Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said Wednesday that he approved the Department of Defense sending military aircraft “to support DHS deportation flights of more than five thousand illegal aliens from the San Diego, California, and El Paso, Texas sectors detained by Customs and Border Protection.
“DHS will provide inflight law enforcement, and the State Department will obtain the requisite diplomatic clearances and provide host-nation notification,” he said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a number of child sex offenders, as well as gang members and other criminals, among the more than 530 illegal immigrants it caught on Thursday.
The haul is the latest day of busy work for ICE, which is leading the mass deportation operation launched by the new administration. Before Thursday, ICE had made 460 arrests since Trump was inaugurated.
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People are seen boarding a U.S. military aircraft. The White House announced Friday that “deportation flights have begun” in the U.S. (White House)
On Thursday, ICE agents also detained several workers at a fish market in Newark, N.J., Fox 5 NY reported.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka slammed the operation as an “egregious act” and a violation of the Fourth Amendment after agents reportedly swooped in to raid the business “without producing a warrant.”
Baraka said that one of those detained is a U.S. military veteran who “suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned.”
“This egregious act is in plain violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees ‘the right of the people be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures….’” Baraka wrote in a statement.
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“Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized,” Barak said, adding that he is “ready and willing to defend and protect civil and human rights.”
Fox News’ Brooke Taylor, Adam Shaw and Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
In a recent announcement, the White House has confirmed that deportation flights have begun as part of President Trump’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. This move is said to send a “strong and clear message” to those who are in the country unlawfully.
The White House has stated that these deportation flights are a necessary step to enforce immigration laws and protect American citizens. President Trump has long been a vocal advocate for stricter border control measures and has made it a priority of his administration to address the issue of illegal immigration.
Critics of the deportation flights argue that they are inhumane and do not address the root causes of illegal immigration. However, the White House maintains that these flights are a crucial component of their larger immigration enforcement strategy.
As the deportation flights continue, it remains to be seen how this will impact the broader immigration debate in the United States. Stay tuned for further updates on this developing story.
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