A top border official from Donald Trump’s incoming administration said US immigration authorities will conduct mass arrests of undocumented immigrants across the country on Tuesday.
It would be the first step by Republican Trump, who returns to the White House on Monday, to uphold a campaign pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants from the United States.
Trump’s incoming “border czar” Tom Homan’s comments on Fox News on Friday came in response to reports in the Wall Street Journal and other US outlets that Trump’s new administration planned to conduct “immigration raids” in Chicago starting Tuesday Is.
“There’s going to be a major raid across the country. Chicago is one of many places,” said Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The first Trump administration.
“On Tuesday, ICE is finally going to go out and do their job. We’re going to take the handcuffs off ICE and let them arrest criminal aliens,” he said in the interview.
“What we’re telling ICE is, you’re going to enforce immigration laws without apology. You’re going to focus on the worst, the public safety threats first, but no one is off the table. If they’re in “Country illegally, they’ve got a problem,” Hain Homan said.
The Wall Street Journal, citing four unnamed people, reported that a “massive immigration raid” in Chicago was expected to begin on Tuesday, the day after Trump’s inauguration, “lasting all week” and involving 100 to 200 ICE officers. Will be included. Operation plan.
Chicago police spokesman Don Terry told The New York Times that the department “will not interfere or interfere with any other government agencies performing their duties.”
But he said the department “does not document immigration status” and “will not share information with federal immigration authorities.”
Midwestern Chicago is one of several Democrat-led US cities that have declared themselves “sanctuary” for migrants – meaning they will not be arrested simply because they do not have legal immigrant status.
A representative for Trump did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment.
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