The Trump government launched an immigration inspection blitz throughout the United States on Sunday (26) that included several federal agencies and resulted in the arrest of nearly 1,000 people, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Seizures are part of an effort to gather a higher inspection apparatus, joining a series of federal agencies that received extended immigration authority under the Republican government.
ICE agents were accompanied on Sunday by authorities from various Justice Department agencies, while they aimed what they said were threats to public security and national security. The operation should continue this week.
The White House “border tsar”, Tom Homan, called Sunday’s execution actions in Chicago “a good day” and a “watershed” in an interview with CNN .
“President Trump put the whole government on this issue,” he said. ICE was accompanied on Sunday by agencies such as the FBI; the Drug Encarcement Administration; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firears and Explosives; and US Marshals Service.
“We had all government police today to focus on public safety and threats to national security in Chicago,” Homan expressed.
According to him, who was on site in Chicago, that was a “criminal operation.” Interim Assistant Attorney General Emil Bove was also in the city to accompany immigration inspection operations.
Throughout the country, 956 people were arrested and “554 arrests (were) housed” on Sunday (26), wrote the Ice in an X post, marking the highest total since the agency started reporting them on the platform.
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In addition to the “enhanced targeted operations” announced by ICE in Chicago, immigration inspection actions were also reported in the Atlanta area; Puerto Rico; Colorado; Los Angeles; and Austin, Texas.
The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, said the city police were not involved in the operation, adding that his team was working closely with city officials. He asked residents to “know his constitutional rights.”
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Previous administrations, including Biden, also sought threats to public security and national security by performing immigration inspection operations.
Homan argued that the guidelines under Biden create obstacles to police officers aimed at criminals, as former Biden employees have argued that these guidelines have established a clear focus.
Internal supervision should increase as government officials try to execute the president’s promise of deportation. The Ice field offices were instructed to meet a quota of 75 arrests per day, according to two sources, paving the way to overcome the number of daily arrests last year.
In the last fiscal year, ICE inspection and removal operations performed 113,431 administrative arrests, according to the agency report, totaling about 310 arrests per day in all field offices.
The new border commander, when asked, said he did not impose a quota on ICE officers: “My goal is to arrest as much threat to public and national security and move on to other priorities.”
“We are prioritizing criminal foreigners,” said Homan. “There will be a point where we will have to open the gap for fugitives.”
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, said Dana Bash from CNN On Sunday (26) he also wants violent criminals outside the country, but expressed concern about how management is conducting operations.
“If that’s what they are taking, we are all in favor,” said Pritzker. But the Democratic Governor said, “They are behind people who fulfill the law, who have jobs, who have families here, who may have been here for a decades.”
As part of the Trump administration focus on immigration, federal law agencies have been instructed to prioritize the deportation of a wide range of criminal suspects under investigation that may be “out of status”, a source of the law -familiar application said with the latest operations to CNN .
Investigators, according to the source, were instructed to consider the deportation of a suspect who is in the country illegally and under investigation by agencies such as the FBI, ATF and DEA, even when an accusation for crimes not related to immigration investigated by these agencies is not likely in the short term.
The source said that those who were instructed to consider “just get them out of there.”
The new posture is remarkable because crimes investigated by federal law agencies can take weeks or even several months to be proved and processed.
Before taking office, the source explained, Trump’s transition officers were questioning the law agencies about how many of their investigations involved non -American citizens.
The Chicago Police Department said in a statement to CNN that does not document the status of immigration and, according to its “ordinance of the welcoming city”, “does not share information with federal immigration authorities”.
“We will not intervene or interfere with any other government agency that performs its duties,” says the statement.
This content was originally published in US immigration: Trump government launches inspection blitz across the country on CNN Brazil.
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