The “no King” rally beyond us attracts a large crowd to protest Trump
Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled streets across the country with a “no-kings” march coordinated to protest President Trump.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has directed US immigrants and customs enforcement officials to detain immigrants from large democratically operated cities and to step up efforts to widen the crackdown on illegal immigration despite widespread protests over policy.
Trump called for an expanded deportation blitz on the evening of June 15th, where he challenges the True Social Social Directors to “do their best efforts to achieve this very important goal of providing the largest deportation program in history.”
His order came after massive protests in response to an ice attack in Los Angeles last week, which resulted in suppression of the National Guard and Marines during the “No Kings” rally on June 14th, spreading across cities across the country during the “No Kings” rally.
To achieve the deportation goal, Trump said, “we must “detain, detain and detain illegal aliens in America’s largest cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, expanding efforts, detaining and detaining millions of illegal aliens.”
“These, and other such cities, are at the heart of the Democratic power centers, use illegal aliens to expand the base of voters, cheate elections, raise welfare states, and take good pay and profits from the hard work of American citizens,” he said.
Trump said he wanted ice officers to focus on “internal cities that are deadly in our crimes, and where sanctuary cities play such a big role,” adding:
“Now, get the job done!” Trump added.
Last week, Trump sent a very different signal about his deportation purpose when he pledged future policy changes to protect deported leisure industry immigrant farmers, hotel workers and others. Trump cited hearings from people in the farms and leisure industry who are concerned about a shortage of workers due to mass deportation.
“Our farmers are seriously hurt,” Trump said on June 12th.
Even before Trump’s latest charges against ice, the agency dramatically expanded its deportation efforts after the White House called on the agency to illegally increase arrests of immigrants in the country, Reuters reported. Daily quotas increased from 1,000 arrests per day to 3,000.
Trump’s border emperor Tom Homan said in late May that the administration had deported around 200,000 people in four months. The White House says the contradiction is the result of fewer immigrants coming to the border.
Immigrants seeking to cross the US-Mexican border have fallen sharply in the first five months of Trump’s second term. Border Patrol agents have seen monthly encounters of asylum seekers and asylum seekers drop from over 100,000 people a year ago to under 10,000.
Contribution: Reuters
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