Trump ALREADY deports over 500 illegal immigrants from US including ‘terrorist’, gangsters & perverts, White House says
DONALD Trump has started his crackdown on immigration as more than 500 illegal migrants have been deported just days into his second term.
The White House claimed these mass expulsions have included a terrorist, gangsters, and child sexual abusers.
Trump declared a national emergency at the border with Mexico just before he was sworn in for the second time on Monday.
His press secretary revealed the President has already started his promised crackdown by starting mass deportation flights.
“The Trump administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals,” Karoline Leavitt said.
Leavitt revealed the nature of some of the reported criminals forced on military aircraft and out of the US.
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“Today the Trump administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex crimes against minors," she added.
“The largest is well underway. Promises made. Promises kept.”
Leavitt also posted images that appeared to show groups of men lining up to board massive military planes.
These huge deportation numbers followed a flurry of immigration-focused executive orders signed by Trump on his first day.
One of these included the deployment of more soldiers along the border.
Trump branded the migrants passing into the US illegally as "criminal aliens".
Trump's Border Czar, Tom Homan, shared the figures into this speedy crackdown.
“We’re concentrating on the worst first, the public safety threats and national security threats,” he said.
“And just yesterday, in the last 24 hours, ICE arrested over 308 ... serious criminals.”
One of these raids included a controversial surprise descent on a business in Newark, New Jersey.
Ras J Baraka, the mayor of the city, said this raid had been conducted without a warrant.
TikTok, gender debate & JFK truth – the rest of Trump’s to-do list
BY Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
JFK ASSASSINATION
Trump promised to uncover a slew of classified documents on the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King.
During his first term Trump did release some documents related to the fatal shooting of JFK in Dallas, Texas, 1963.
King and Robert Kennedy were both assassinated in 1968.
"In the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records related to the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr Martin Luther King Jr and other topics of great public interest," he said the day before his Inauguration.
Trump has not specified what kind of documents he hopes to release, but the JFK assassination in particular has been a long-term source of debate in the US.
A widespread conspiracy theory has suggested the involvement of the federal government or CIA in orchestrating and covering up his death.
TIKTOK BAN
Trump has hit repeatedly hit out at the plans to ban TikTok in the US - a wildly popular social media app with some 170million American users.
After national security concerns tied to its Chinese ownership, the app was briefly shut down across the country.
But mere hours after Trump promised to reinstate it after taking office, American users were able to get back online.
The app "welcomed back" American yesterday, lauding Trump as the reason for its return even before his official return to the Oval Office.
He then extended a 90-day period to keep it running.
GENDER DEBATE
Trump has previously vowed to reinstate a ban on transgender military service - something he brought in during his first term which Biden later axed.
He said at a rally in December: "With the stroke of my pen, on day one, we're going to stop the transgender lunacy."
He is also expected to ban transgender women from competing in women's sports, saying: "And I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high school.
"And we will keep men out of women's sports. And that will likewise be done on Day One."
CLIMATE CRUNCH
Trump has also promised to look at cost of living efforts and visit Los Angeles in the wake of recent devastating wildfires.
And he is expected to overturn President Biden's climate policies - including on the regulation of pollution or green job efforts.
It could also stretch to a ban on new wind projects or electric vehicle mandates.
He has already pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement - just as he did in 2017, before Biden rejoined in 2021.
Several undocumented people were detained as well as a military veteran without cause.
A suspected terrorist was detained by ICE agents in New York.
Gokhan Adriguzel, a 30-year-old Turkish national, was arrested by the agency on Thursday.