The American military base located in Cuba is already used to incarcerate certain migrants intercepted at sea.
President Donald Trump announced that he would sign a decree ordering the Pentagon and the Ministry of Internal Security to enlarge a migrant detention center on the American naval base of Guantanamo, normally reserved for prisoners accused of terrorism.
According to the New York Times, the American military base, on the island of Cuba, has been used for decades to incarcerate certain migrants intercepted at sea like Haitians and Cubans. Its extension would accommodate up to 30,000 migrants and testifies to the growing role of the Pentagon in Donald Trump’s plans to repress illegal immigration.
The White House then published the text, which is a “memorandum“And not a”decree”. He plans to bring to “full capacity” an already existing retention center to enclose it “Foreign criminals present illegally” on American territory.
She intervenes after the American president promulgated on Wednesday the Bippartisane Laken Riley law, which constitutes the first legislative text of his administration. This is the first law passed since its inauguration.
This law provides that people who find themselves illegally in the United States and who are accused of theft or violent crimes will have to be placed in detention and potentially expelled before they were even convicted.
Donald Trump, who returned to the White House based on the anger of public opinion with regard to illegal immigration, made the repression promised a central element of his political career and now lets hear that The new law could be only the beginning.
Donald Trump proclaimed during a law signing ceremony “We are going to send them to Guantanamo”.
Trump attacks the “critical theory of race”
President Trump also orders American schools to stop teaching what he considers the “Critical theory of race” and other subjects dealing with race and sexuality, under penalty of losing their federal funding.
A separate plan announced on Wednesday calls for aggressive action to combat anti -Semitism on university campuses, promising to continue offenders and revoke the visas of international students considered as “Sympathizers of Hamas”.
The two plans were described in decrees that will be signed by Donald Trump on Wednesday. These measures aim to materialize some of the main campaign promises of the Republican President in terms of education, even if we do not know exactly to what extent he has the power to implement them.
Its decree on primary and secondary schools stipulates that federal money cannot be used for “indoctrination“children, including “The radical ideology of gender and the critical theory of race”. He specifies that civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination based on sex and race will be used to enforce the decree, qualifying the critical theory of the breed of “intrinsically racist policy”.
Donald Trump also asked the Minister of Education to develop a strategy within 90 days to “Put an end to indoctrination in primary and secondary education”. He appointed Lina McMahon, a billionaire professional wrestling, as an education manager, but his confirmation hearing in the Senate has not yet been scheduled.
During his campaign, Donald Trump said he would sign a decree “From the first day” In order to reduce federal funds allocated to schools that advocate the critical theory of breeds or other contents “Inappropriate”.
The federal government provides billions of dollars to schools each year, although the vast majority of their funding comes from states and local authorities.
The White House cancels the Memo freezing federal subsidies
This decision comes after the Administration of the White House of Donald Trump canceled a previous service note which froze expenses linked to subsidies and federal loans, following great confusion and legal challenges.
This note, published Monday evening, aroused concern throughout the country, the White House striving to explain what would be or would not be the subject of a break in funding.
The frost was due to come into force Tuesday at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, but it was blocked by a federal judge until at least Monday, following an emergency hearing requested by non -profit groups benefiting from federal subsidies. Another trial brought by prosecutors general of the Democratic States is also underway.
Administration officials said the notice of interruption of loans and subsidies was necessary to make an exam to ensure that expenses are in accordance with the recent revision of Donald Trump’s decrees.
The agencies had been ordered to answer a series of questions by yes or no on each federal program before February 7, with questions such as “Does this program promote the ideology of the genre?” And “Does this program promote or does he support any way abortion?”
But the memo in the wave label, combined with the incomplete answers of the White House throughout the day, left the legislators, civil servants and the average Americans to determine which programs would be affected by the break. Even temporary financing interruptions can lead to layoffs or delays in public services.