
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt released this image Friday, writing on X that “deportation flights have begun.” Sources tell Fox News that this photo was taken at Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and that the aircraft departed for Guatemala.
FOX NEWS | Published January 24, 2025
White House says with deportation flights, Trump is sending a ‘strong and clear message to the entire world’
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Friday that “deportation flights have begun,” releasing photos of people boarding military aircraft.
“President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences,” she wrote on X.
One of the photos was taken at Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources told Fox News. The sources added that the plane in the image holds 80 people and departed for Guatemala on Thursday at 5 p.m. local time.
It’s unclear who was boarding the flights. Leavitt did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Additional U.S. troops also have arrived and started putting up wire near the Ysleta Port of Entry in El Paso, the CBP told Fox News.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a number of child sex offenders, as well as gang members and other criminals, among the more than 530 illegal immigrants it caught on Thursday.
The haul is the latest day of busy work for ICE, which is leading the mass deportation operation launched by the new administration. Before Thursday, ICE had made 460 arrests since Trump was inaugurated.
On Thursday, ICE agents also detained several workers at a fish market in Newark, N.J., Fox 5 NY reported.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka slammed the operation as an “egregious act” and a violation of the Fourth Amendment after agents reportedly swooped in to raid the business “without producing a warrant.”
Baraka said that one of those detained is a U.S. military veteran who “suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned.”
“This egregious act is in plain violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees ‘the right of the people be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures….’” Baraka wrote in a statement.
“Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized,” Barak said, adding that he is “ready and willing to defend and protect civil and human rights.”
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SOURCE: www.foxnews.com
RELATED: White House: Deportation Flights Have Begun
NEWSMAX | Published January 24, 2025
The White House early Friday announced that “deportation flights have begun,” while releasing photographs of lines of people led onto military planes to be taken out of the country.
“President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: If you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday on X while showing two photographs of people boarding the planes.
It was not specified when the photographs were taken, where the deportations were being carried out, or where the flights were destined.
According to federal information, in the 33 hours between midnight Monday and 9 a.m. Wednesday, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested more than 460 immigrants determined to be in the U.S. illegally, reported Fox News.
Those detained reportedly had criminal records that included robbery, sexual assault, burglary, aggravated assault, drug offenses, weapons charges, resisting arrest, and domestic violence.
Foreigners involved Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Senegal, and Venezuela.
President Donald Trump had already announced the use of U.S. military aircraft for the deportation flights, reports MSN.
The Pentagon is deploying four C-17 and C-130 aircraft to transport migrants out of the country as part of the president’s broad strategy to address the invasion at the southern border.
The State Department is handling diplomatic clearances, while the Department of Homeland Security will provide in-flight law enforcement, and approximately 5,400 migrants are expected to be deported in the initial phase of this operation.
The Pentagon’s deployment to the border also includes 1,500 active-duty troops who will be added to the 2,500 active-duty troops already there, sparking outrage from critics who argue that using military resources for the deportation flights is an ethical and legal concern.
The administration argues that the deportations are necessary for securing the border.
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SOURCE: www.newsmax.com
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