By Maria Ortiz
Dec 11, 2024, 7:58 PM EST
The elected president donald trump plans to rescind a policy that prevents law enforcement officers Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) arrest or raid immigrants in so-called “sensitive locations,” such as schools, workplaces, churches and hospitals and at events such as funerals and weddings, according to NBC News, which cites three sources familiar with that plan.
Trump will rescind the measure on his first day in office with the aim of expand the power of arrests of ICE agents, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity with NBC.
Trump was elected on the promise of mass deportations and his advisors are preparing the ground for exceed the number of expulsions carried out by the Administration of President Joe Biden.
The policy of limiting ICE actions in sensitive locations festablished 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.
Tom Homan, appointed by Trump as ‘border czar’ to lead the Republican’s deportation plan, said this Tuesday that operations will begin in Chicago.
In his first term, Trump had already tried to rescind this policy. In 2018, ICE announced it would begin detaining immigrants in courthouses, prompting criticism from lawmakers and immigrant advocacy organizations.
The directive clarified that agents have permission to make arrests in courthouses because any individual who enters those facilities must pass a security inspection, cannot carry a weapon and, therefore, the risk is “reduced” in the police operation.
The agency assured at that time that I would not make arrests inside the courts in an “indiscriminate manner.”
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