President Donald Trump has promised many times to remove violent illegal aliens from American soil, and on Wednesday, he took his administration’s current rapid-fire deportation operation a step further by announcing a powerful new executive order.
During a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act at the White House, he said he would sign an executive order directing both the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay to detain the worst illegal alien offenders.
“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them,” he said. “Because we don’t want them back so we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo…that’s a tough place to get out of.”
The president’s comments on Wednesday were concise as he delivered remarks at the signing for the legislation, which honors the life of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia who was slain by an illegal alien gang member last year. The president explained that the legislation will require federal law enforcement to detain illegal aliens who are arrested on smaller offenses such a theft. It also allows states to sue the federal government for failing to secure the border correctly.
Trump chastised the Biden administration for allowing millions of illegals to enter the country over the past four years. “The very government that was [supposed] to protect their daughters instead opened their borders and transported the world’s most dangerous criminals straight into their communities,” he said.
However, President Trump highlighted his administration’s commitment to rapidly removing these alien criminals from America. “The number of illegal crossings has already fallen by more than 100 percent,” he said.
He said the “heroes of ICE” have arrested “thousands and thousands of illegal aliens” just over the past eight days. Trump also poked fun at Colombia, who initially refused to accept repatriation flights filled with Colombian deportees over the past weekend.
After the president threatened to tariff Colombia into economic oblivion, the Colombian government backed down. “So, Colombia apologized to us within an hour based on something I said,” Trump explained. “…I appreciate that they took back that tough talk.”
He added, “They’re all going to take them back and they’re going to like it.”
