According to the current White House administration, all illegal immigrants arrested by the authorities are criminals, regardless of the circumstances.
In an address to the press, the young secretary, Karoline Leavitt stated the laws of the Trump administration when she was asked about the mass arrest.
“The 3,500 arrests that ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has made so far since President Trump came back into office. Can you just tell us the numbers? How many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally,” one reporter asked.
“All of them, because they illegally broke our nation’s laws, and therefore, they are criminals as far as this administration goes,” Leavitt replied.
“I know the last administration didn’t see it that way. So it’s a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that’s exactly what they are.”
She kept reiterating that illegal immigrants are criminals.
Since Trump became the United States president for the second time, hundreds of illegal immigrants, especially those with criminal records have been arrested and bundled for deportation. Trump is not backing down in his ‘America first’ challenge and taking out illegals is part of the agenda of the administration.
This press release was Leavitt’s first since she became the White House Secretary for Trump’s administration and she did her best to capture the new rules and terms the way the current president of the United States would have wanted.