Washington.- The U.S. President, Donald Trump, said this Saturday that “hopefully” the courts will allow his Government to continue with the expulsions of migrants, at a time when different judges have blocked several of these controversial operations or even the order to stop the enrollment of foreign students at Harvard University.
“It’s not easy, but hopefully the courts will allow us to continue,” Trump said during the graduation ceremony of the prestigious military academy of West Point, in which he said that his Executive has restored the central purpose of the Armed Forces, which according to him is to protect the “own borders from invasions”.
“Our country was invaded during the last four years, and they have allowed the entry of people who shouldn’t be here,” the president exclaimed, stating, once again, that a large number of immigrants who have entered the U.S. in recent years are “criminals” or mentally ill” and that his Government is “removing them and bringing them back to their places of origin.”
The president recalled that he has deployed the Army on the border with Mexico and granted control of federal territory along the dividing line to the Armed Forces and that thanks to this, “illegal border crossings” have been reduced to practically zero.
Trump’s words come at a time when the courts continue to block the most controversial measures of his Administration on immigration.
One of the latest occurred this week, when a Massachusetts court ordered not to deport eight migrants, including two Cubans and a Mexican, to South Sudan, an edict that the Trump Government has allegedly violated, which allowed the takeoff of a plane with these eight people, who in turn assures that they remain under federal custody in Djibouti.
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In turn, another federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked on Friday the decision announced on Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security to halt the enrollment of foreign students at Harvard University, an institution that the Government accuses of, among other things, fostering “antisemitism” by authorizing protests against the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.
The institution, from which the Executive has also withdrawn funding and revoked its tax status since the beginning of the year, has refused to provide data on students who participated in the aforementioned protests.
