The Department of Homeland Security hosted a press briefing to announce end of year numbers regarding immigration enforcement, border security and National security. The briefing was attended by Ronald D. Vitiello, Acting Deputy Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Tom Homan, Senior Official performing the duties of Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Francis Cissna, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on December 5, 2017. Photographer: Donna Burton.
It is rumored that throughout the week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, led by Tom Homan, will be conducting raids throughout the nation’s big cities, deporting criminal immigrants. The Wall Street Journal reports:
The incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week, according to four people familiar with the planning, the first move in President-elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation campaign.
The raid is expected to begin on Tuesday morning, a day after Trump is inaugurated, and will last all week, the people said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will send between 100 and 200 officers to carry out the operation.
Trump ran for president on a bold promise: to carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history.
The Trump team intends to target immigrants in the country illegally with criminal backgrounds—many of whose offenses, like driving violations, made them too minor for the Biden administration to pursue. But, the people cautioned, if anyone else in the country illegally is present during an arrest, they will be taken, too.
The transition team had been contemplating cities to target in a day-one operation as a way of making an example of so-called sanctuary cities, which adopt policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. They settled on Chicago both because of the large number of immigrants who could be possible targets and because of the Trump team’s high-profile feud with the city’s Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Though it isn’t clear how many people the operation will actually target, Trump’s team is planning to work with several right-leaning media outlets to amplify its efforts.
Tom Homan, the administration’s incoming border czar, appeared to preview the operation during a visit to Chicago last month.
“We’re going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois,” Homan said at a holiday party on Chicago’s North Side. “And if the Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside. But if he impedes us, if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien, I will prosecute him.”
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