Trump admin to ease immigration crackdown on first day amid deportations | Immigration Issues


Several major cities are expected to be hit by Trump’s immigration officials soon after his inauguration.

President-elect Donald Trump has said the new Republican administration will launch a major crackdown on undocumented immigrants starting on Tuesday, the day the president-elect is inaugurated.

Incoming administrations so called “border czar”Tom Homan, told Fox News on Saturday that he would not share what is expected as “terrorists”.

“There will be enforcement actions,” he said, adding that Chicago will be one of the cities that will be targeted by criminals after Trump takes office for four years.

Homan also said the Trump administration would target jails in so-called sanctuary cities that house large numbers of immigrants. He said the government wanted to “imprison a bad person in a safe and secure prison”.

Homan, a former director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said the agency was good job planning and he knows which houses to hit.

Amid US media reports that Chicago could be hit starting Tuesday with hundreds of border agents and that New York and Miami could also be targets, they did not say the exact time frame for the operation or provide further details.

People take part in a rally against Trump’s immigration policies in New York City, January 18, 2025 (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

Homan’s latest comments come a day after he said, “We’re going to take the shackles off ICE and let them arrest aliens.” He added that there had been “massive attacks across the country”.

As during his first presidential campaign, Trump promised to crack down on undocumented immigrants in his second term. But there have been disagreements on other issues among Republicans, including the cycle issue H-1B visas.

Mr Trump has promised to launch “the largest deportation program in American history”. get rid of people quickly without saying exactly how many will be affected.

The president-elect has said he will reinstate a plan to make thousands of asylum seekers wait for their hearings in Mexico, reinstate a ban on Muslim-majority countries from its first term, and end US citizenship. children of other non-citizens.

Trump’s administration has been considering how to block funding for sanctuary cities that refuse to participate in deportations, even as officials have maintained that they don’t have the money to implement his plan, or are worried about the impact it could have on their communities.

Refugee rights groups they have been waiting for disappointment promised by the incoming administration, while some US journalists describe “self-expulsion” by people who have decided not to wait for Trump to remove them by force.

Meanwhile, thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC on Saturday to oppose the establishment of Trump, as activists for women’s rights, racial justice and other causes that oppose the upcoming policies that they say will undermine their constitutional rights during the second Republican term.

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

Protests against Trump’s inauguration are smaller this time around, in part because the US women’s movement appears to be crumbling, according to many activists, after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in November.


2025-01-18 20:58:22
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