Trump's immigrant purge will begin this weekend with ICE raids set for Sunday
that he’ll use the power of executive order to force a citizenship question onto the 2020 census, theNationwide raids to arrest thousands of members of undocumented families have been scheduled to begin Sunday, according to two current and one former homeland security officials, moving forward with a rapidly changing operation, the final details of which remain in flux.
The raids, which will be conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over multiple days, will include “collateral” deportations, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the preliminary stage of the operation. In those deportations, the authorities might detain immigrants who happened to be on the scene, even though they were not targets of the raids.
The original delay in the raids came about partly because of public opinion, but also partly because of division within Homeland Security itself—some of whom don’t want to spend their days arresting children and babies. Plus, it might not work:
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