Reports The Post:
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation, known informally as the “sanctuary op,” could begin in California as soon as later this week. According to two of the officials, it would then expand to cities, including Denver and Philadelphia, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive government law enforcement plans.
Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, will travel to at least one of the sanctuary cities, which are places that do not cooperate with the federal government to deport undocumented immigrants.
This action would increase President Trump’s claims that the leaders of these cities have failed to protect residents from dangerous criminals,” according to two officials interviewed for the report.
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According to The Post:
Trump has inveighed against sanctuary jurisdictions throughout his presidency. He has expanded those attacks to include Democratic mayors in cities convulsed by racial justice demonstrations and sporadic rioting after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The immigration operation would sync with two themes of Trump’s reelection campaign: his crackdown on immigration and his push to vilify cities led by Democrats, whom he blames for crime and violence.
This action is just one of many Trump attempts to make arrests in sanctuary cities.
As the Post reports, the president once created a plan to transport immigrants from the border to cities like San Francisco and other Democratic-run cities.
And in another bold attempt to reach immigrant families, he struggled last year to run a “family operation” aimed at migrant parents with children, according to the Post. That plan ultimately did not yield the number of arrests that Trump hoped to achieve.
News of previous operations forced undocumented migrants in several cities to go underground, “fearing that they could be arrested and deported while their children – sometimes American citizens – will be left behind,” according to The Post.
Officials in sanctuary jurisdictions told the Post that their policies help “preserve community trust in immigrant neighborhoods”.
