A pro-immigration enforcement organization says the Trump administration deserves praise for deporting criminals back to their home countries.
Soon after taking office in 2017, President Trump put pressure on countries with an executive order: no more visas if they refuse to take back dangerous criminals.
At the end of the Obama presidency, 23 countries were uncooperative and that number has now shrunk to just nine countries thanks to Trump’s action.
Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says the Trump administration has exerted pressure on the governments that have refused to take back their own criminals.
“What we’ve learned,” he tells OneNewsNow, “is there are pressure points that you can use to get these countries to do what most other countries do, which is accept their own citizens coming back to their countries.”
The push for cooperation, Mehlman advises, is a good model on how the United States can get governments—particularly like those in Central America—to cooperate.
“You still have some very significant bad players, including China and Cuba,” he says, “but there are other countries where we have used diplomatic pressure.”
FAIR reports that China remains the country with the most planned deportees, a whopping 40,000, awaiting a trip home.
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