New Delhi:
A heart-wrenching incident took place in New York, America on Sunday morning. A woman was burnt alive in a subway train in New York. This incident occurred at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station. The train was standing at the station at the time of the incident. The woman was sitting in the train. During that time a person set his clothes on fire with his lighter. Sebastian Zapeta, a migrant from Guatemala, has been arrested in this incident. He entered America through Arizona in 2018. The police do not have any criminal record of his. Industrialist Elon Musk has expressed concern over this incident. He has posted on social media platform X.
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Musk has retweeted a tweet made from a handle named America (@america). This tweet reads, “BREAKING: The man who burned the woman alive in the New York City subway has been confirmed to be an illegal immigrant from Guatemala. He re-entered the country after being extradited.” With this tweet Musk has written – Wow.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2024
The Twitter handle named America which Musk has retweeted is a Political Action Committee (PAC). It was founded by Musk himself. This PAC supports those who advocate for border security, careful spending, safe cities, a discrimination-free justice system, freedom of expression, and self-defense. Musk’s PAC had spent about $200 million to help Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Friendship between Trump and Musk
After winning the presidential election, Donald Trump had entrusted Musk with the responsibility of Government Efficiency Department. The job of this department is to tell the government about measures to cut government expenses. Along with Musk, Republican Party leader Vivek Ramaswami will also support him in this work. Trump has been advocating strict controls on those entering the country from the Mexican border. In such a situation, Musk’s tweet is being seen as a taunt on America’s Joe Biden administration. However, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a letter on December 19. Report According to the US, more than two lakh 71 thousand immigrants were deported from America in the financial year 2024. This number is the largest number of immigrants deported in the last decade. This number of illegal immigrants is more than the number of immigrants deported during the first term of President-elect Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has been very strict regarding illegal immigrants. During his election campaign, Trump promised that he would take steps to complete the incomplete policies of his tenure from 2017 to 2021. Trump indicated in a social media post on November 18 He said he would declare a national emergency and use military means to deport immigrants living in the US illegally. He also launched the 2019 ‘Remain in Mexico’ program. There has been talk of starting it again. Under this, citizens of some selected countries had to stay in Mexico till the disposal of their refugee application.
Trump’s policy on illegal immigrants
The incident in New York has once again brought the problem of illegal immigrants to the fore. In such a situation, people are now speculating that after taking oath on January 20, President Trump may declare a national emergency to deal with this problem. His work may get support from Elon Musk. Musk is also considered strict towards illegal immigrants. Expressing his displeasure after the New York incident, Musk wrote, “Enough is enough.”
The man involved in the New York incident has been identified as Sebastian Zapeta, a migrant from Guatemala. He entered the US illegally through Arizona in 2018. Police have confirmed that he did not know the victim nor did he have any criminal record in New York.
In this case, the arrested person used a lighter to set fire to the woman’s clothes. Due to this, the woman started burning within a few seconds. The officers patrolling there extinguished the woman’s fire after seeing the smoke and fire, but the woman died on the spot. Broke. The video of this incident has gone viral on social media, in which the attacker was watching the woman burning. After the incident, the accused fled from the scene. But due to the intelligence of alert citizens and officials, he was soon arrested.
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