ICE Will Begin Immigration Raids Across Ten Cities This Sunday
Written by SOURCE on June 21, 2019
The Trump administration has ordered U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to launch a nationwide roundup of migrant families across ten cities starting this Sunday (June 23). As the Washington Post reports, the operation is being referred to as the “family op” by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.
Up to 2000 migrant families are facing deportation orders. The cities being targeted include Houston, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and a number of other “major immigration destinations.” ICE agents are expected to use hotel rooms as “staging areas” for which to detain parents and children until they’ve rounded up all members of the families together. There’s also the possibility that ICE agents will arrest those they cannot deport immediately, and will release them with monitoring devices.
Donald Trump initially announced the operation on Monday with a series of vague tweets. “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” he tweeted. “They will be removed as fast as they come in.” He used it as an another opportunity to criticize the Democrats.
This story will be updated.
