ICE breaks daily deportation record

The interim head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Tom Homan, announced on Friday that the country recorded record numbers of daily deportations carried out by federal agents, as part of operations conducted this week. ICE "reached a record this week, recording the highest number of deportations in a single day since President [American, Donald] Trump took office," Homan stated in a press release. The official, whom Trump calls the "czar of the border," also indicated that although the fiscal year has not yet ended, "last month, ICE carried out more deportations than in any other month." "Since June, the monthly numbers of detentions carried out by ICE have also been higher than in previous months, as have the voluntary departures recorded by the Department of Homeland Security," he specified. Homan reported that he was with the ICE Air Operations team in Alexandria on Friday morning "to observe and evaluate the deportation operations" and witnessed the departure of an "airplane full of Haitians" who were "sent back home." Among them were "people with criminal records for aggravated assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, and other crimes," he mentioned. "This government made it clear that temporary means temporary: therefore, if your TPS (Temporary Protected Status) has expired, or if you are illegally in the country, take advantage of our voluntary departure program and return to your country of origin. Otherwise, we will detain you and deport you," Tom Homan reiterated, addressing immigrants in irregular situations in the United States directly. "We are maximizing deportations: we are moving forward at full speed while expanding our capabilities to increase deportations beyond the current record levels, fulfilling the President's promise, restoring the rule of law, and keeping our communities safe," he added. [Annie has known the Minister of the Interior of Cuba for a long time, but the passion that unites them is relatively recent. It is at this time that Zé Manel, as she calls him, will be implicated in one of Fidel Castro's leadership's greatest scandals. The "Ochoa Case" involves drugs, executions, imprisonment, and the world's most notorious drug lord: Pablo Escobar. You can already hear the fifth episode of "The Scandals of a Revolutionary," the new Observador Plus Podcast. It is available on the Observador website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Youtube.]