'They wanted 10 cities, thousands of targets,' one Homeland Security insider told The Washington Post.
In their final weeks as two of the top immigration officials in the White House, former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Ronald Vitiello thwarted a secret White House plan to arrest thousands of migrant parents and children across the country, according to a report.
The majority of families that would have been targeted in the operation had crossed the border over the past 18 months and were either in the U.S. awaiting a court date or in defiance of deportation orders. According to the Post, both senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller and ICE Deputy Director Matthew Albence, who has since replaced Vitiello as acting ICE chief, were strong proponents of the plan, which they argued would help deter asylum seekers from making the journey to the U.S. border.
“There was concern that it was being hastily put together, would be ineffective and might actually backfire by misdirecting resources away from critical border emergency response operations,” one DHS official told the newspaper.
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