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Trump Illegal Migrant Raids To Start On Day One, US Media Report

Raids to detain and deport migrants living in the US without permission are set to begin on the first full day of the new Trump administration, US media report.

The operations – threatened by Donald Trump’s “border tsar” Tom Homan – could begin in Chicago, a city with a large migrant population, as early as Tuesday, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal say.

Trump has said he will oversee the largest deportation programme in US history.

In an interview with Fox News this week, Homan promised a “big raid” across the country. He has previously said Chicago will be “ground zero” for the mass deportations.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency deports illegal migrants all the time. However, the operation it is expected to launch after Trump’s inauguration on Monday is expected to target so-called “sanctuary” cities that limit co-operation with federal immigration officials.

Along with Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles are among the scores of US cities that have adopted “sanctuary” policies.

“January 21st, you’re going to look for a lot of ICE agents in your city looking for criminals and gang members,” Homan told a Republican gathering in Chicago last month. “Count on it. It will happen.”

New York, Los Angeles, Denver and Miami are also due to be targeted with raids, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed sources familiar with the plans.

Under Democratic President Joe Biden, ICE generally prioritised the arrest of illegal migrants who were serious criminals, had crossed the border recently or posed a national security threat.

While Trump’s team has signalled that it will begin with migrants who had committed crimes, all illegal migrants – including those who have lived and worked in the US for many years and have no criminal history – are more likely to be arrested and deported.

Immigration raids at construction sites where undocumented migrants are often employed are also expected to resume, after being discontinued by the Biden administration, according to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner.

Ahead of the expected hardening of US policy, more migrant farm workers have been seeking advice on dealing with immigration officials and assigning temporary guardians for their children.

“The administration is not yet sworn in, but people are already afraid,” Sarait Martinez, executive director of the Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño, which supports Mexican farm workers in California, told Reuters news agency.

As well as pledging to deport millions of illegal migrants and threatening workplace raids, some reports suggest that Trump could also do away with a longstanding policy that has made churches off-limits for ICE arrests.

However, the upcoming raids are likely to pose significant difficulties for officials – with limited custody space to hold those detained.

At the same time, the Laken Riley Act – named after a college student who was murdered last year in Georgia by a Venezuelan man previously arrested for shoplifting – is expected to be passed by US lawmakers next week.

The proposed legislation will require the federal government to detain migrants living in the US illegally who are suspected of criminal activity – even if they are not charged with any crime.

Source: BBC News

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Let the show begin, 12 noon on 20th January, grab a bag of popcorn, in fact you’ll need truckloads of popcorn, because this show will last 4 years!

  2. I believe St. Lucia should also take a look at it’s immigration policies as it relates to undocumented people living here.

  3. Agreed The Crow. People keep trying to say Trump is doing this because he’s racist and maybe he is. But the fact is, the people are in the country illegally and some are committing serious crimes. The same is happening here only we’re just letting them stay like Biden in the US.

  4. @Anonymus who are the illegals committing crimes here ?? St Lucia does not a large population of “illegals” living here, very few to be exact maybe one or two our own people are the ones doing the arm I will make excuses for you them.. The only people in America that you NEVER hear complaining about illegal immigration are the farmers, lots of them are Trump supporters, but they catch themselves now because they will have no one willing to stand in the hot sun and freezing cold to pick produce, white people just not doing that kind of work and only a few blacks are willing to do that hard work so guess what’s going to happen higher food prices when farmers can’t reap what they sow, also poultry and slaughter houses real dirty dirty work (google it) immigrants alone doing that kind of work……when they catch themselves pressure must burst pipe and he must bend. I am not saying you don’t have illegals committing crimes and yes they must leave the peoples place, however immigrants are driving force of the American Economy and what affects them affects St Lucia. When prices skyrocket even more nobody don’t jump all over the PM like yu’ll deck deck and don’t know what’s happening externally, but trust me rabble rousers will still blame him. We need more than ever to grow what we need and eat what we grow. This election was about keeping a 34 count convicted felon from going to jail……bad for the Trump name and legacy…..his parents must be rolling in their grave….it’s equivalent to saying a Windsor is a convicted criminal, he had to erase that at whatever cost.

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