White House Vows to Keep up Immigration Crackdown After Midterms Defeat
White House officials said the administration will keep its arrest target at about 19,000 a week despite Democratic gains and internal debate over enforcement.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump promoted Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff, signaling the administration will maintain aggressive immigration enforcement despite recent electoral losses.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement remains under strict orders to lock in roughly 19,000 arrests every week, about 2,700 people a day, leaving no room for a post-election pivot.
- Former Department of Homeland Security official Theresa Cardinal Brown noted ICE has $75 billion in funding locked in through 2029, enabling continued operations despite potential congressional roadblocks.
- Resistance is cropping up locally; Houston's mayor announced plans last week to limit police cooperation with federal agents, while Democrats prepare to take control of Congress in January.
- Vice-President JD Vance wrote online that he is "open to the idea that we should change enforcement- by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labour, for instance," signaling internal dissent.
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Trump says deportation policy was ‘too tough’ in CBS interview
A US Border Patrol agent threatens protesters with a tear gas canister during a confrontation in Minneapolis. (EPA Images pic)WASHINGTON: US president Donald Trump said that his mass deportation of undocumented immigrants was "too tough," according to an excerpt of an interview with CBS aired Sunday.Asked about his deportation policy, Trump told CBS' "60 Minutes": "I think it was too tough... I think it might be too tough."The excerpt was publis…
"I think that was very tough," the US president told a CBS reporter who asked him about his immigration policy, without specifying whether he intends to change it. The post Trump says his immigration deportation policy "was very tough" appeared first on in.gr.
Under pressure after the Republican defeat, the U.S. president suggests a possible change of tone on immigration, but without announcing any concrete measures.
Miami, Nov 8 (EFE).- President Donald Trump acknowledged that his deportation policy was "too harsh" after the mid-term elections last Tuesday in which his party lost the majorities of Congress, according to an interview with CBS posted this Sunday. The correspondent for the ’60 Minutes’ Ross Douthat program [...] Trump admits that his deportation policy was "too hard" after the elections was first published in HolaNews.
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