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Updated Sunday, February 11, 2024-11:30

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Donald Trump

has promised a wave of mass expulsions of migrants, if he wins the presidency of the United States again, and has questioned whether his government would guarantee NATO security against Russia, during a campaign event in North Carolina. South this Saturday.

Trump

welcomed the collapse of the bill

to address the immigration crisis on the border with Mexico and assured that there will be a massive "deportation operation" from his first day in office.

The abandonment of the bipartisan bill this week in the US Senate highlighted Trump's tight grip on the Republican Party, denying Democratic President

Joe Biden

a victory on the hot-button issue of immigration. The legislative project also included

an additional aid package to Ukraine and Israel

, which will now be dealt with separately.

"We crushed corrupt Joe Biden's disastrous open borders bill," Trump declared at the rally Saturday night.

"On day one I will end all of the Biden administration's open border policies and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. We have no choice," he said.

NATO defaulters without protection

Trump, who frequently reproaches allies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for not adequately funding that alliance, also maintained that

he would refuse to defend any of those countries against Russia

, should it find itself in Blackberry.

The former president referred to a conversation with a leader he did not identify during a NATO meeting.

"The president of a big country stood up and asked, 'Well, sir, if we don't pay and Russia attacks us, would you protect us?' And I said, 'If you didn't pay, you've committed a crime.'" .

"I wouldn't protect him. On the contrary, I would encourage them to do whatever they want to them.

He has to pay, he has to pay his bills

," Trump emphasized.

The White House rejected those statements. "Encouraging invasions of our closest allies by murderous regimes is appalling and deranged," spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.

"Rather than calling for war and promoting chaos, President Biden will continue to support American leadership," the spokesperson added.

The United States Senate will debate next week on the aid package that includes

95 billion dollars for Ukraine

- at war after being invaded by Russia - for Israel's fight against the militants of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and for Taiwan, your strategic ally.

The bulk would be to help Ukraine replenish depleted supplies of ammunition, weapons and other crucial needs as it prepares to enter its third year of war.

On more than one occasion Trump has been doubtful and even opposed to continuing US assistance to Ukraine and has even threatened to leave NATO if he returns to the White House.