Several large cities are reportedly expected to be attacked by President Trump’s immigration authorities soon after he takes office.
President Donald Trump’s top border official said the new Republican administration will launch a major operation to detain and deport illegal immigrants starting Tuesday, the day the next U.S. president is inaugurated.
Tom Homan, the incoming administration’s so-called “border czar,” told Fox News on Saturday that he would not classify the expected action as an “attack.”
“There will be targeted enforcement operations,” he said, adding that Chicago would be among the cities targeted for raids shortly after President Trump takes office for his second four-year term. added.
Homan also suggested the Trump administration could target municipal jails in so-called sanctuary cities that house large numbers of immigrants. He said the government wants to “arrest bad guys in the safety of county jails.”
Homan, a former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said the agency planned its operations carefully and would know which homes to attack.
He declined to comment on the exact timing or details of the operation, as US media reported that hundreds of Border Patrol agents could attack Chicago as early as Tuesday, and that New York and Miami could also be targeted. I didn’t comment on it.
Homan’s latest comments came a day after he said, “We’re going to take the handcuffs off ICE and arrest criminal aliens.” He also said there would be “massive nationwide attacks.”
Just as he did during his first presidential campaign, Trump promised to crack down on illegal immigration in his second campaign. However, there were disagreements within the Republican Party on several points, including over the issuance of H-1B visas.
President Trump promised to launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in U.S. history” to expel people quickly, without saying how many people would be affected.
The president-elect has reinstated a program that forced tens of thousands of asylum-seeking immigrants to wait for hearings in Mexico, reinstated a controversial travel ban on Muslim-majority countries from his first term, and He said that the birthright citizenship of the United States would be abolished. Some non-citizen children.
Trump administration officials have sought to remove officials from sanctuary cities who refuse to participate in deportations, even when local governments say they don’t have the resources to carry out his plan or are concerned about the negative impact on their communities. We have been considering ways to withhold funds.
Immigrant rights groups are bracing for a crackdown promised by the incoming administration, and some U.S. media outlets are reporting “voluntary deportations” by people who are not waiting for President Trump’s forced removals.
Meanwhile, activists for women’s rights, racial justice and other causes rallied Saturday against upcoming policies they say threaten constitutional rights during the Republican Party’s second term. , thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest President Trump’s inauguration.
Some in the crowd wore pink hats, a nod to the mass protests against President Trump’s first inauguration in 2017. They marched through downtown in a light rain, past the White House, and headed toward the Lincoln Memorial along the National Mall.
Trump’s inauguration comes in part because the U.S. women’s rights movement appears more divided after Trump defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in November, many activists say. This time, the protests have been small-scale.