President Trump defended the raids conducted and tactics used by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers this year, saying that he believed “they did not go far enough.”
In one of his clips “60 minutesIn an interview shared Sunday evening, CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell asked the president if he thought some of the raids had gone too far after videos emerged of agents using tear gas and breaking car windows in a Chicago residential neighborhood.
Trump responded, “No. I think they haven’t gone far enough, because we’ve been blocked by judges – by liberal judges who were appointed by Biden and Obama.”
When O’Donnell asked if he “agreed with those tactics,” Trump responded, “Well, yes, because you have to take people out.”
He said, “You have to look at the people. Many of them are murderers. Many of them are people who have been kicked out of their countries because, you know, they were criminals.” He also said that his administration was deporting him.
“You promised in your campaign that you were going to deport the worst — violent criminals, rapists —,” O’Donnell said, with Trump responding, “We’re doing that. That’s what we’re doing.”
O’Donnell rebutted, “But many of the people your administration has arrested and deported are not violent criminals: landlords, nannies, construction workers, farm laborers, families of service members.”
Trump responded, “Yes, landlords are criminals.”
“Do you intend to deport people with no criminal records?” O’Donnell asked Trump.
“We have to start with a policy, and the policy should be, ‘You came into the country illegally, you’re going to be out,'” Trump said. “However, you’ve also seen, ‘You’re going to be out. We’re going to work with you, and you’re going to come back into our country legally.'”
Since returning to the White House, Trump has stepped up immigration raids across the country, sending masked federal agents Some “sanctuary cities”Allegedly in an effort to deport immigrants living in the country illegally.
Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston have become centers of increased immigration enforcement this year,
like citychicagoAndbostonbe center stage forincreased immigration enforcementThe operations are beginning this week, but Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources say Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is “all over the place.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has slammed Trump’s immigration operations In their states.
Recently, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie (D) condemnedNotice of deploymentFederal immigration officials in your city said this will happen Inciting “anarchy and violence” Instead of reducing crime.
“In cities across the country, masked immigration officers are deployed to use aggressive enforcement tactics that instill fear, so that people don’t feel safe going about their daily lives,” Lurie said in a nine-minute video statement.
