NEW: Pres. Trump on anticipated ICE raids: 'It starts on Sunday, and they're going to take people out and they're going to bring them back to their countries...We're focused on criminals as much as we can, before we do anything else.'
Major cities across the U.S. on Thursday were bracing for sweeping deportation raids this weekend, the second time in less than a month that Trump administration insiders have signaled roundups were imminent.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said"there may be some possibilities for what we can do" but that it would take some time. She called targeting non-criminal families"heartless" and said it was up to Trump's supporters to press him to abandon his plan. The large-scale operation would be a departure from past practices, in which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has focused its resources on rounding up people with criminal records who"pose a threat to public safety." This approach would include families and send ICE officers to people's homes.
"The Trump administration's threats against immigrants run roughshod over basic fairness and due process," said New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman in a statement."For the many families who came here as refugees fleeing violence, deportation is a death threat. We will fight to ensure no one faces this kind of peril without having their case considered in court.
"What people need to understand is that every ICE agent used in this operation will not be available to go after criminal aliens, gang members, terrorists" or other priorities, he said.
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