The incoming administration of Donald Trump will end the policy that prevents immigration agents from making arrests in so-called “sensitive places” such as schools, churches and courthouses, a measure that he had tried to impose in his previous term (2017-2021). , sources told NBC this Wednesday.
The president-elect will rescind the measure on his first day in office with the aim of expanding the arrest power of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity with the television station.
Trump was elected on a promise of mass deportations, and his advisers are laying the groundwork to surpass the number of expulsions carried out by President Joe Biden’s administration.
The policy of limiting ICE actions in sensitive places was established in the Government of Barack Obama (2009-2017), known as the head of deportations due to the high number of expulsions carried out in his two terms.
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Operations will begin in Chicago
Tom Homan, appointed by Trump as ‘border czar’ to lead the Republican’s deportation plan, said this Tuesday that the operations will begin in Chicago.
In his first term, Trump had already tried to rescind this policy. In 2018, ICE announced that it would begin detaining immigrants in court, which sparked significant criticism from lawmakers and immigrant advocacy organizations.
The directive clarified that agents have permission to make arrests in court because any individual who enters those facilities must pass a security inspection, cannot carry a weapon and, therefore, the risk in the operation is “reduced.” police.
The agency assured at that time that it would not make arrests within the courts in an “indiscriminate manner.”
With information from EFE
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