Trump Vows To Deport ‘Millions Of Illegal Aliens’ As Campaign Team Raises Whopping Sum In 24 Hours
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump has vowed to begin removing millions of illegal immigrants from the United States starting next week.
The pledge came as Mr Trump formally announced his bid for re-election to the White House in 2020.
He said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement would “begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” adding: “They will be removed as fast as they come in.”
There are an estimated 12 million people in the United States illegally, mainly from Mexico and Central America.
A White House official said the new crackdown would focus on more than one million of those who have already been issued final deportation orders by judges, but still remain in the US.
The official said: “Countless illegal aliens not only violate our borders but then break the law all over again by skipping their court hearings and absconding from federal proceedings.
“These runaway aliens lodge phony asylum claims only to be no-shows at court and are ordered removed in absentia. Enforcing these final judicial orders is a top priority.”
It is unusual to make planned immigration raids public before they happen.
But senior White House figures believe a series of mass arrests, and the threat of them, would also act as a deterrent to would-be illegal immigrants, in countries including El Salvador and Honduras, who may be considering attempts to reach the US border.
The number of illegal immigrants from Central America crossing the US border has risen dramatically during Mr Trump’s presidency. Funding for his plan to build a border wall has been blocked by Democrats.
He recently secured the co-operation of Mexico by threatening to implement increasingly drastic tariffs on Mexican goods.
The threat was dropped after Mexico agreed to dispatch its national guard to its border with Guatemala.
Three weeks ago there were 4,200 illegal migrants arriving at the US border daily, and that has now dropped to 2,600 a day, according to a Mexican official.
Mr Trump said: “Mexico, using their strong immigration laws, is doing a very good job of stopping people long before they get to our southern border.”
The president said Guatemala was getting ready to sign an agreement that would force illegal migrants to apply for asylum there, rather than trying to head on through Mexico to the US.
Mr Trump said the “border crisis” would end quickly if Democrats would agree to “fix” the asylum system.
Immigration was a central theme of Mr Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, and is expected to be again in 2020.
In another development, Trump in a rally in Orlando on Tuesday night billed as the kickoff to his reelection campaign received nearly $25 million in contributions in less than a day.
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel announced Wednesday that Trump raised a “record breaking $24.8m in less than 24 hours for his re-election.”
“The enthusiasm across the country for this President is unmatched and unlike anything we’ve ever seen!” she tweeted.
RNC chief of staff Richard Walters told Yahoo News that the total is a combination of the amount raised by the Trump campaign and Trump Victory, the joint fundraising arm for the campaign and the RNC.
The RNC took in $10.8 million from major donors at two fundraising events, while the Trump campaign raised $8 million through a phone drive and about $6 million in online donations. (The average online donation was $44, Walters said.)
Trump’s one-day haul is nearly four times the amount former Vice President Joe Biden raised in the first 24 hours after announcing his 2020 presidential campaign.
Biden took in $6.3 million, the largest first-day total for any of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. According to Biden’s campaign, the money was raised from nearly 97,000 individual donors across all 50 states.
The former vice president’s campaign raised slightly more in its first 24 hours than former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke ($6.1 million) and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ($5.9 million).
Biden, though, has faced criticism among Democratic rivals for his embrace of high-rolling donors and top-dollar fundraisers.
“I don’t spend time at fancy fundraisers,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted earlier this week. “Instead, I spend my time meeting voters and thanking grassroots donors who chip in what they can.”
At a $2,800-a-plate fundraiser in New York City on Monday night, Biden said his campaign had already raised nearly $20 million, mostly from small donors.
But at another fundraiser, at the Carlyle Hotel on New York’s Upper East Side on Tuesday night, Biden asked for support from about 100 prominent Democratic donors and promised he would not “demonize” them for their wealth.
“What I’ve found is rich people are just as patriotic as poor people,” Biden said, according to Bloomberg News. “I need you very badly.”
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