According to Tom Homan, a top border official in the incoming US President-elect Donald Trump‘s administration, the US immigration and customs enforcement ( ICE ) will start making large-scale arrests of undocumented immigrants nationwide starting on Tuesday. The action coincides with Trump’s plan pledge to arrest thousands of illegal Americans.
There will be a significant attack across the country, Homan, who formerly served as the acting director of ICE and oversaw a plan that separated immigrant parents and children at the borders during the first Trump presidency, told Fox News. Chicago is just one of many sites”.
” On Tuesday, ICE is eventually going to go out and do their job. He continued,” We’re going to let ICE go jail criminal aliens while keeping the handcuffs down.”
Homan emphasized that no one is exempt from deportation if they are in the state illegally, despite the initial emphasis being on “public health risks.”
” What we’re telling ICE, you’re going to maintain the immigration laws without apologies. You’re going to focus on the worst first, public health threats initially, but no one is off the desk. If they’re in the country illegally, they got a problem”, he said.
Studies from the Wall Street Journal and other US sources suggest that the “large-scale immigration attack” in Chicago is expected to commence on Tuesday, a day after Trump’s opening, and “last all week”, involving 100 to 200 Snow soldiers.
The Chicago police spokeswoman Don Terry told the New York Times that the office would not “intervene or tamper with any other government agencies in performing their duties.” Nevertheless, he clarified that the office “does not record immigration status” and” did not share information with national immigration authorities”.
Chicago is one of several Democrat-led US locations that have declared themselves” shrines” for workers, meaning people will not be arrested exclusively for lacking legal refugee status.
