The United States immigration and customs control service (in English) will focus the efforts of its raids in three cities every week, with an objective of at least 1,200 immigrants arrested every day, according to the NBC News chain.
The migratory agents are accelerating the rhythm of the raids since Donald Trump took power on Monday of last week with the promise of mass deportations. According to NBC News on Tuesday, the objective of the ICE is to focus every week in three major cities for its operations.
This week he started with the raids in Chicago on Sunday and continued on the morning of this Tuesday in New York, in an operation led on the ground by the new Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem.
According to sources cited by that American chain, the third city of the week will be Aurora, a suburb of Denver (Colorado) of a Hispanic majority. The idea is that next week the operations focus on three other cities.
In addition, sources cited by NBC News and The Washington Post indicated that the Trump government has put the agents that ICE has distributed in its 25 offices throughout the country an objective of between 1,200 and 1,500 immigrants arrested every day.
This Monday ICE arrested 1,179 people, the highest number since Trump’s return. Of these, only 613 -A 52 % – are considered “criminal arrests” of immigrants with criminal records in the United States or pending cases in other countries.
CT (EFE, NBC News, The Washington Post)
