Trump’s immigration raids continue: 600 illegal aliens are arrested in a week leading undocumented people to fear they could be next
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers conducted a series of raids
The ‘routine’ operations mainly targeted those with criminal convictions
Trump said removal of immigrants was in keeping with his campaign promise
Undocumented migrants say they live in fear the raids will ‘tear families apart’
By JOE SHEPPARD
DailyMail.com
13 February 2017
Hundreds of illegal immigrants across 11 states were arrested last week as part of targeted operations, federal immigration officials revealed on Sunday.
A series of raids by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers saw around 600 people apprehended.
The agency said the operations were ‘routine’.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday morning to proclaim his commitment to a crackdown on crime.
He tweeted: ‘The crackdown on illegal criminals is merely the keeping of my campaign promise. Gang members, drug dealers & others are being removed!’
Immigration was a key platform of the billionaire’s presidential campaign before his election in November 2016.
The president plans to build a wall across the Mexican border to prevent to stop what he calls the ‘unprecedented surge’ of illegal migrants from Central America.
The raids are the first coordinated efforts by ICE under the Trump administration to arrest targeted undocumented migrants.
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