Trump administration to launch immigration attack on first day amid deportations | Immigration News

It is reported that many major cities are expected to be hit by Trump’s immigration authorities shortly after his inauguration.

Donald Trump’s top official said the new Republican administration will launch a massive campaign to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants starting on the day of the inauguration of the President of the United States on Tuesday.

The incoming head of the so-called “border king”, Tom Homan, told Fox News on Saturday that he would not classify these expected actions as “attacks”.

“There will be enforcement programs,” he said, adding that Chicago will be among the cities that will see raids shortly after Trump takes office for a second four-year term.

Homan also suggested that the Trump administration would target prisons in so-called sanctuary cities that house large numbers of immigrants. He said the government wants to “arrest a bad person in the security and safety of the county jail”.

Homan, the former acting director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said that the agency is planning to operate efficiently and will know which houses to hit.

Amid US media reports that Chicago could be hit on Tuesday by hundreds of border agents and that New York and Miami could also be victims, he did not comment on the exact time of the operation or elaborate.

Homan’s latest comments come a day after he said, “We’re going to take the handcuffs off ICE and let them arrest unknown criminals.” He also said that there will be a “big attack across the country”.

As in his first presidential campaign, Trump has promised to deal directly with undocumented immigrants in his second run. But there have been disagreements on other issues among Republicans, including the issue of H-1B visas.

Trump has promised to launch “the largest deportation program in American history” to quickly remove people without saying how many would be affected.

The president-elect has said he will reinstate a plan to allow tens of thousands of asylum seekers to await their hearings in Mexico, restore a ban on Muslim-majority countries from his first term, and end US-born citizenship. children of other non-citizens.

Trump officials have been thinking about how to withhold money from sanctuary cities that refuse to participate in deportations, even local authorities who insist they don’t have the resources to implement his plan, or worry about the negative effects on their communities.

Immigrant rights groups have been looking for a violation of the laws promised by the incoming administration, with some US media reporting “self-deportation” by people who chose 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 others rallied against the upcoming policies that they said would interfere with their constitutional rights during the Republican’s second term.

Some in the crowd wore pink hats marking the largest protest against Trump’s 2017 inauguration. They walked through downtown in the light rain, past the White House and toward the Lincoln Memorial near the National Mall in the “March of the People.”

Protests against Trump’s inauguration have been smaller this time around, in part because the American women’s movement appears to be fragmented, according to many activists, after Trump defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in November.