Election campaign in South Carolina
Trump promises massive deportations
February 11, 2024, 3:45 a.m
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The Trump campaign has already planned his first days in office. If he becomes US President again, he wants to immediately overturn all of Biden’s gun laws, he promised on Friday. On Saturday he announced that he would launch the largest national deportation operation on his first day in the White House.
Former US President Donald Trump welcomed the failure of a migration bill in the Senate and announced massive deportations if he was re-elected. “From day one, I will end the Biden administration’s entire open borders policy and we will launch the largest national deportation operation in the history of the United States,” Trump said at a rally in South Carolina.
“We have no other choice,” emphasized the Republican. The rejection of the legislative package was “a great victory that every conservative should celebrate,” Trump said.
On Wednesday, a legislative package worth $118 billion (around 110 billion euros) failed due to resistance from Republicans in the US Senate. The so-called National Security Supplemental Act includes, among other things, $60 billion to support Ukraine, $14.1 billion for Israel and $20.2 billion for border security. The compromise negotiated by Democrats and Republicans also includes numerous changes to immigration policy.
Senate considers decoupling military aid from border security
Linking foreign aid to the issue of US border security was originally a concession from Biden’s ruling party to the Republicans. The reason for the Republicans’ current resistance is the rejection by Trump, who wants to retake the White House in the presidential election in November – and intends to use border policy as a campaign issue. The right-wing populist has openly positioned himself against the reform package and thus put pressure on his Republican parliamentarians to let it fail. The upper house is now considering a package that completely decouples foreign aid from border policy.
Trump had previously promised to reverse all gun restrictions imposed by Biden if re-elected. “Every single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be stopped in my very first week in office, perhaps even my first day,” Trump said in a speech to thousands of supporters on Friday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The event was organized by the National Rifle Association (NRA).