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Trump delays 10-city raids on illegal immigrants
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IANS | 24 Jun, 2019
US President Donald Trump has
announced a two-week delay to the proposed raids on illegal immigrants
scheduled to start on Sunday in 10 American cities to see if Republican
and Democratic lawmakers can get together and work out a solution.
"At
the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration
Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and
Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and
Loophole problems at the Southern Border," Trump tweeted on Saturday.
"If not, deportations start," he added.
Media
reports said on Friday that the Trump administration is expected to
kick off pre-dawn raids on Sunday on up to 2,000 migrant families facing
deportation orders in 10 cities including Los Angeles, Houston,
Chicago, Miami, New York and San Francisco, based on cases filed in 10
immigration court locations, reports Xinhua news agency.
The
imminent operation raised concerns about more family separations. Both
Chicago and Los Angeles mayors said their cities would not assist in the
raids.
"We are all aware of the threat from President Trump
regarding raids by ICE, and in response, Chicago has taken concrete
steps to support our immigrant communities," Chicago Mayor Lori
Lightfoot tweeted on Friday. "CPD (Chicago Police Department) will not
cooperate with or facilitate any ICE enforcement actions."
Los
Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti also said in a statement: "Los Angeles will
always stand with our immigrant brothers and sisters, and our law
enforcement officers will never participate in these actions."
Trump
defended the plan on Saturday morning, saying in a tweet: "The people
that ICE will apprehend have already been ordered to be deported. This
means that they have run from the law and run from the courts."
In
February, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent some 2,000
letters to families who already had received final orders of removal by
judges in absentia, asking them to self-report to local ICE offices by
March to comply with the orders.
The upcoming operation is expected to target them.
However,
acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan has reportedly been
urging ICE to take a more limited approach to detain a group of about
150 families who had attorneys but dropped out of the legal process and
absconded, warning that the widespread operation could risk separating
children from their parents.
Once arrests take place, families
will likely be moved to ICE residential detention centres as the agency
works with consulates to obtain travel documents.
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