Trump admin to launch immigration raids on Day 1 amid deportation push | Migration news
Several major cities are reportedly expected to be hit by Trump’s immigration enforcement soon after the inauguration.
Donald Trump’s top border official said the new Republican administration will launch a major operation to detain and deport undocumented immigrants starting on the day of the United States president-elect’s inauguration on Tuesday.
Incoming management the so-called “border emperor”Tom Homan, told Fox News on Saturday that he would not categorize the expected actions as “raids.”
“There will be targeted enforcement operations,” he said, adding that Chicago would be among the cities to experience raids shortly after Trump takes office for a second four-year term.
Homan also suggested that the Trump administration would target city jails in so-called sanctuary cities that hold large numbers of migrants. He said the government wanted to “arrest the villain in the safety and security of the county jail.”
Homan, the former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said the agency did careful planning of operations and he would know which homes to hit.
Amid US media reports that Chicago could be targeted by hundreds of border agents as early as Tuesday, and that New York and Miami could also be targets, he did not comment on the exact timing of the operation or provide additional details.
Homan’s latest comments come a day after he said, “We’re going to take the handcuffs off ICE and let them arrest criminal aliens.” He also said there would be “major raids across the country”.
Just as during his first presidential campaign, Trump promised to crack down on undocumented immigrants in his second campaign. But there were disagreements on some aspects among Republicans, including about the eye issuance of H-1B visas.
Trump vowed to launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” remove people quickly not saying exactly how many will be affected.
The president-elect said he would restart a program that would keep tens of thousands of asylum-seeking migrants awaiting hearings in Mexico, restore a controversial travel ban from his first term to Muslim-majority countries and end birthright citizenship for the US-born children of some non-citizens.
Trump officials have considered how to withhold funding from sanctuary cities that refuse to participate in deportations, even for local governments that have argued they lack the resources to implement his plan or are concerned about negative effects on their communities.
Immigrant rights groups they were preparing for repressions the new administration has promised, and some American media are reporting “self-deportations” of people who have decided not to wait for Trump to forcibly remove them.
Meanwhile, thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC on Saturday to protest Trump’s inauguration, as activists for women’s rights, racial justice and other initiatives rallied against new policies they say will threaten their constitutional rights during the Republican second term. mandate.
Some in the crowd wore pink hats that marked a much larger protest against Trump’s first inauguration in 2017. They walked downtown in a light rain, past the White House and toward the Lincoln Memorial along the National Mall for the “March of the People.”
Protests against Trump’s inauguration have been smaller this time, in part because the American women’s rights movement appears more fractured, according to many activists, after Trump defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
