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“ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,” Trump said in a post to social media on Sunday.
“In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” he added.
Trump’s move to ramp up immigration enforcement in big Democratically-led cities comes a week after he acknowledged his deportation agenda’s impact on the US workforce and said he would craft policy changes to
“His plan is clear: Incite violence and chaos in blue states, have an excuse to militarize our cities, demonize his opponents, keep breaking the law and consolidate power,” Newsom said in a tweet Monday. “It’s illegal and we will not let it stand.”
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Trump reiterated his plan Monday as he met with Canadian Prime Minister
“I want them to focus on the cities, because the cities are where you really have what’s called sanctuary cities,” Trump said. “Most of those people are in the cities, all blue cities, all Democrat-run cities, and they think they’re going to use them to vote. It’s not going to happen.”
Trump campaigned on carrying out the largest deportation in US history and has moved swiftly to deliver on the agenda with a sweeping series of orders and stepped-up raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Earlier this month, ICE said it was
Trump’s call to focus on cities follows days of unrest in Los Angeles over the mass-deportation effort.
The protests in LA, sparked by increasingly aggressive ICE raids, escalated following Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to help quell violence in the city over the objections of Newsom and the city’s mayor. Trump also deployed as many as 700 active-duty Marines, who have been given orders to protect federal property and officers.
Newsom has sued the administration arguing that the National Guard deployment exceeded Trump’s authority. While a lower court issued an order that would limit the use of National Guard troops to respond to the protests, a federal appeals court panel is
Over the weekend, protesters rallied in hundreds of US cities to denounce what they said were Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, including the increased deportations and tactics used to carry them out.
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