With workplace raids and “roving patrols,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has dramatically ramped up its efforts to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants in recent weeks throughout major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle.
The Trump administration claims its agents are targeting “the worst of the worst — including gang members, murderers and rapists” who have “reigned terror” on American communities. The Department of Homeland Security frequently puts out press releases publicizing the capture of these “heinous criminals.”
But on-the-ground reporting has revealed that ICE is also sweeping up otherwise law-abiding immigrants — and even some U.S. citizens — as it strives to meet the administration’s new quota of 3,000 arrests per day, up from 1,000 previously, and kick-start what President Trump has described as “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
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According to the Wall Street Journal, top White House aide Stephen Miller — the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda — held a testy meeting last month at ICE headquarters, where he demanded that officers do “what they needed to do” to make more arrests, including rounding up noncriminals in public places.
Miller is an oxygen thief.
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