Donald Trump is ready to impress everyone On the threat posed by the phenomenon of mass immigration, and not just illegal immigration; As well as adopting their methods to combat it. As it has just done with its representations in Europe, Canada and Australia, Washington will ask its embassies in Latin America to pressure governments to tighten immigration policies and warn about what it sees as a link between immigration, violent crimes, and “human rights violations,” a novelty in Trumpian phraseology. This was indicated by a senior State Department official, who requested anonymity, in a recent virtual press conference with European, Australian and New Zealand journalists. The text of this meeting can be read here.
Agency Reuters It was reported this week that the US government sent a telegram to its embassies in Europe and English-speaking countries expressing concern about the dangers of mass migration. The telegram you also posted new york times, It tasks US diplomats with informing Washington of cases of immigration-related crimes and what the governments’ response to these events is.
This text asks U.S. embassies to encourage governments to “Ensure policies that protect their citizens from the negative social impacts of mass migration, including displacement, sexual assault, and deterioration of public order.“In addition, it promotes immigration policy reform, putting an end to any type of program that encourages mass migration.
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The State Department’s recommendation will soon be expanded, in a customized version, to include Latin America, a region whose control has become a priority for Trump. The informant said: “While this first immigration telegram focused on Europe and the Anglo-Saxon region because of the urgent needs in that region in those regions and countries, we plan, given the diversity and nuances of the problem of mass migration in different regions of the world, to issue subsequent telegrams for other parts of the world, such as Latin America, more appropriate to the problems arising from mass migration in those specific regions. These will be published in the coming weeks and months.”
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It is known that Argentina Javier Miley It has positioned itself at the global forefront of defending Trump’s interests. We appreciate that Washington will have the government’s cooperation for this purpose as well. Or rather, it already does: as stated Nikola Winaszky Last Monday in ClarionThe government is preparing a deep security reform that is considering creating “Immigration police“, responsible for Monitoring movement at border crossings. Its members will be similar to members of the security forces and will replace civilian agents of the General Directorate of Migration.
The project was prepared by the Minister of Security Patricia BullrichWho will leave office on December 10 in the hands of Alejandra Monteoleva. As Winazki also said, the initiative seeks to integrate the functions of this new agency with those of the US Department of Homeland Security, which directs Kristi Noem.
“hunting migrants.”
Noem met with Bullrich at the end of July in Buenos Aires to approve the program, which is still underway. Visa exemption To enter Argentina into the United States. Former Governor of South Dakota, known as the “Immigrant Hunt” He is in charge of the dreaded US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, in its English acronym), responsible for the campaign of arrests – violently, in the streets and in broad daylight – and the mass deportation of illegal immigrants carried out by Trump. Among the duties of the Office of Removal (ERO, in English), according to its website, is “to enforce the immigration laws of the United States within, within, and beyond our borders (…) against those who pose a threat to our national security or pose a threat to public safety.”
Noem starred in an ad campaign launched in February in Latin American countries (including Argentina, where she can be seen on cable) in which she herself warned: “If you are a criminal alien and are considering entering the United States illegally: Don’t even think about it. If you come here and break our rules, we will come after you. Criminals are not welcome“In Mexico it sparked outrage.
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Dozens of videos are circulating on the networks about ICE arrests that appear to be kidnappings and protests. It proliferated in the United States due to the violence used by its agents, many of whom were masked. The protests were one of Trump’s motivations for deploying the National Guard in Washington, Los Angeles and other American cities.
American media reported this week that the mother of a nephew Caroline LevittThe White House press secretary was arrested in one such operation when she left her home to pick up her son. Michael Levitt From school. Bruna Ferreirathe ex-partner of Levitt’s brother, arrived with her family from Brazil when she was 6 and resides in Boston. She is an undocumented immigrant, and is being held in ICE facilities in Louisiana and will be deported, according to the same monitoring agency.
The State Department source report with which this memorandum begins links immigration and violent crime, with sexual assault of girls predominant; This is a criterion that is increasingly widespread among European far-right movements (which mainly target Muslim immigration) and which Washington uses to justify its anti-immigration campaign.
But the source does not provide data to support this link. But he warns of the impact of mass immigration, not just illegal immigration, on human rights.. “We must return to the concept of ‘human rights’ properly (…). The Trump administration is saying goodbye to partisan human rights and focusing on what it really means to defend people’s natural, inalienable rights to life, liberty and personal security.” New doctrine.
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