The White House Secretary reiterated on Tuesday that President Donald Trump “opposes the Maduro regime” after statements of the special envoy, Richard Grenelll, in which he assured that “Donald Trump is someone who does not want a regime change “
The White House reiterated on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump “has made his position very clear” that “he opposes the Maduro regime,” the press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
Leavitt was consulted on the expressions of the envoy for special missions, Richard Grenelll, who during the weekend offered details about his Trip to Caracas to meet with Nicolás Maduro at the end of January.
“We have a very clear vision about the Venezuelan and mature government, but Donald Trump is someone who does not want a regime change, and it is someone who wants to do everything we can to make the US people stronger, more prosperous,” Grenell said in an interview on Saturday.
After Grenell's visit, six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months were released and three flights with Venezuelan deportees have arrived in the South American country.
Earlier in February, the spokeswoman in Spanish of the State Department, Natalia Molano, emphasized before the Voice of America That Grenelll and Maduro Encuentro encounter did not represent a change in Washington's policy towards Venezuela.
Shortly after Trump's victory in the elections last November, Maduro sent a message to the US president in which he assured that “in his first government, President Donald Trump, it was not good for us. This is a new beginning for us to bet To win.
Low at irregular crosses on the American border
During the press conference held on Tuesday, Leavitt also emphasized the reduction of irregular crosses on the southwest border of the United States after Trump's possession.
“Only in the first month of President Trump's return to charge, illegal border crossings reached minimal not seen in decades, 94 % less than in the last year, while arrests inside increased 134 %,” he said.
Last Saturday, as announced by the Secretary of the Department of National Security, Kristi Noem, the lowest number of meetings with undocumented migrants in almost 15 years was reached.
200 undocumented foreigners would have been intercepted on the border that day.
“President Trump and Secretary Noem have sent a clear message to illegal immigrants: they do not come to our country. They will not be allowed to enter. And if they do, we will persecute them and deport them,” said a DHS spokesman.
Finally, Leavitt pointed out that it is still “priority” of the administration to continue the construction of the border wall whose works already restarted in Texas and California.
Organizations such as the coalition of southern border communities have criticized the wall ensuring that this “costs thousands of millions” to Americans, “is dangerous” and “invades private property.”