US President Donald Trump has said that the deportation of
undocumented migrants will begin after July 4.
“We will be removing large numbers of people starting
sometime after July 4,” Trump said as additional report said that US
Immigration authorities had earlier announced plan to launch a sweeping effort
to deport recently arrived undocumented families.
The operation is expected to target up to 2,000 families
facing deportation orders in as many as 10 US cities, including Houston,
Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles, according to a media report . A spokesman for
the US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement declined to comment, saying,
“Due to law-enforcement sensitivities and the safety and
security of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, the agency will
not offer specific details related to enforcement operations before the
conclusion of those actions.”
The Acting Director of ICE, Mark Morgan, said the agency
would target for deportation families that have received a removal order from a
US immigration court. Morgan said ICE
wanted to deport undocumented families who had recently arrived in the US to
discourage more Central Americans from arriving.
Trump had tweeted, before the formal kickoff of his 2020
re-election campaign, that ICE would begin removing “the millions” of
undocumented immigrants in the US. House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the country’s top Democrat, responded, saying, “The
president’s new threat of a mass deportation dragnet is an act of utter malice
and bigotry, designed solely to inject fear in our communities.”
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