The National Security Department (DHSfor its acronym in English), the federal government agency responsible for the Public Security of the United States, he requested during the morning of Tuesday, June 17, reverse the order issued by the President Donald Trump and instructed the agents to continue with the massive raids.
Less than a week ago, the Republican president directly asked the immigration and customs control service (ICEfor its acronym in English) that all raids and migratory operations whose main objective was to stop undocumented immigrants in the undocumented immigrants in the Mutiple agricultural places, restaurants and hotels.
According to the American newspaper The Washington Postafter Trump’s order, various DHS leaders asked the President that ICE agents continue to reach the aforementioned workplaces, considering that the migrant labor It is vital within those industries in the United States.
Given this situation, the deputy director of the White House Policy Cabinet, Stephen Miller, He asked to prioritize arrests in Los Angeles and New York, epicenters of protests against operations. In addition, he requested that ICE perform three thousand daily arrestscompared to 700 a day of the first five months.
Arrests in farms, restaurants and hotels
According to the American newspaper The New York TimesTrump’s government had ordered ICE to suspend arrests in farms, restaurants and hotels, so this change suggested that the promise of the Republican of making mass deportations had “limits if it threatens the industries that They depend of undocumented workers. “
“Our Farmers And the people of the sector hotelier And leisure have been saying that our immigration policy is removing workers who are extremely valuable and veteran, since these jobs are almost impossible To replace, “American President Trump published in his social network Truth Social.
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“This is not good. We must protect our Farmersbut get the criminals UU. raids In packing plants threaten companies that supply much of the country’s food.
However, during the morning of this Tuesday, June 17, Tom homanhe border tsar To whom Donald Trump commissioned the greatest deportation of migrants in the history of the United States, mentioned that ICE will return to officers to migrant communities and workplaces in the work in the Sanctuary cities of the nation.
“The Sanctuary cities They will get just what they do not want: more officers in communities and in workplaces. If we cannot arrest them in jail, we will arrest them in the community. If we cannot arrest them in the community, we will increase operations in workplaces. We will flood the area“Homan added.
At present, sanctuary cities are municipal jurisdictions, usually in the United States, which limit its cooperation with the effort of the national government to enforce the Immigration Law. Examples of these are: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Denver, Washington, Chicago and New Orleans, among others.