Trump warns of mass deportation sweep affecting 'millions' next week by CEDickson
President Trump issued a public warning Monday night, by tweet, of a mass deportation effort by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to start next week.
Officials added that announcing the operation ahead of time was self-defeating and could put agents at risk. Landy, who led the agency’s Office of Detention Policy and Planning under Obama, explained that “ICE periodically plans coordinated enforcement actions against adults, with arrests executed by ICE Field Offices across the country.” Such operations, he said, are conducted partly for “PR value.”
“Yes, there are millions of undocumented immigrants, but this operation will result in arrests of hundreds.
“We will be going after individuals who have gone through due process, who have received final orders of deportation. That will include families,” Morgan said at the briefing, explaining that the target of this new focus would be migrants who’d either missed a court hearing or received deportation orders for other reasons.
“Missing a court date, even if you show up half an hour late, could result in an in absentia order, which are really hard to undo,” said Williams, explaining that without the help of an attorney, migrants often don’t know that they need to alert ICE of any address changes and may not even be aware that they’ve missed a hearing and are now subject to removal.
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