Washington (TDI): Over 7,300 immigrants in the US were sent back home in handcuffs and shackles after the Department of Homeland Security launched its mass deportation drive on the order of US President Donald Trump.
The condition in which these immigrants were flown back home has been questioned and so has the use of military aircrafts to carry out this operation while the deportation campaign itself has invited criticism, according to media reports.
Since President Trump took office and inked an executive order on immigration, joint teams of the Immigration Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and other US government agencies have arrested over 10,000 illegal immigrants across the country.
Furthermore, US Vice President JD Vance has confirmed that military plane and other means have been used to deport large numbers of people from Latin American nations such as Venezuela and Colombia.
In a TV interview, the vice president said that in addition to such large-scale and historic deportations, President Trump has also set a target of apprehending and deporting 1,800 illegal immigrants per day, which will continue until the end of the operation against illegal immigrants.
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The intensity of Trump’s drive against illegal immigrants has stirred a storm across the country.
In the late hours of each night, joint teams of officers from the Department of Immigration, the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and other departments carry out raids at homes and businesses in various cities across the US, arresting and deporting illegal immigrants.
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Although the Trump administration’s public stance is that it wants to provide a peaceful, crime-free environment and security for the US citizens by deporting illegal immigrants, the crackdown has created an atmosphere of fear and panic across the country.