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Margelis Tinoco, 48, from Colombia cries at the US border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after her asylum booking disappeared when the app was shut down. Photo: AP

Trump's U-turn on the "big fucking" deportation raids

The plan was to launch a massive operation today, Tuesday, to begin the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants in the United States.

But during Donald Trump's inauguration, the message came:

No, we're waiting.

It was supposed to be a rough start after Donald Trump's election promises to carry out mass deportations and stop criminal migrants.

According to information in the Wall Street Journal, the plan was for up to 200 people from the immigration agency ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to strike in Chicago the day after Trump's inauguration.

Chicago is one of the "sanctuary cities" around the US where local authorities, among other things, refrain from notifying ICE when they have foreign people in custody, so that ICE cannot take them.

Therefore, the operation is being slowed down

However, on Monday, it was announced that they would wait to launch the operation, which New York Post sources called "a big fucking operation".

When the element of surprise has been lost with the plans becoming known in the Wall Street Journal, among others, it is better to wait, the reasoning is, according to information from the New York Post.

Tom Homan, the former head of ICE and now dubbed “Trump’s incoming border czar,” says that doesn’t mean the plans themselves will change, just the timing.

There was a leak in Chicago, so now we’re looking at it and figuring out how it affects the safety of our officers. We’re reviewing when and how we’re going to do it, Homan told Fox News.

When the “bad guys” have a head start and know we’re going to strike at this time of day, that’s when the security aspect comes in.

ICE personnel have now been warned not to reveal sensitive information. The raids are to take place in cities across the United States.

The anger: “Your mayor sucks”

The sanctuary city policy has long been a red flag for immigration critics, and Homan has singled out Chicago as a target.

Chicago has a problem because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,

Homan said in December.

President Donald Trump addressed immigration and crime during his speech at the Capital One Arena on Tuesday night.

Crime in Venezuela has dropped 74 percent. Because they took their criminals and gave them to us! They emptied their prisons, emptied their mental hospitals, Trump claimed.

The asylum app was shut down immediately

At the same time that Trump was sworn in on Monday, an asylum application app from the US Border Patrol also stopped working. Through it, scores of people had booked appointments to seek asylum. All of those appointments have now been cancelled.

Trump has also said that he will stop the right to citizenship that those born in the US have. Because that would require a constitutional amendment and it is seen as highly unlikely that he will succeed in pushing it through.

Immigration issues have long been a cornerstone of Trump's campaign. The most famous of Trump's election promises in his first presidential campaign in 2016 was, as is well known, to build a wall against Mexico.

There are estimated to be around eleven million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Source: Expressen.se

22.01.2025