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Trump Vows Mass Immigration Arrests, Removals of ‘Millions of Illegal Aliens’ Starting Next Week

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06.18.2019 at 04:06am

Trump Vows Mass Immigration Arrests, Removals of ‘Millions of Illegal Aliens’ Starting Next Week by Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti – Washington Post

President Trump said in a tweet Monday night that U.S. immigration agents are planning to make mass arrests starting “next week,” an apparent reference to a plan in preparation for months that aims to round up thousands of migrant parents and children in a blitz operation across major U.S. cities.

“Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” Trump wrote, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “They will be removed as fast as they come in.”

Large-scale ICE enforcement operations are typically kept secret to avoid tipping off targets. In 2018, Trump and other senior officials threatened the mayor of Oakland, Calif., with criminal prosecution for alerting city residents that immigration raids were in the works…

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