Immigration Department: Trump on ICE raids – “They didn’t go far enough” | EUROtoday

US President Donald Trump has defended the raids in opposition to immigrants with no legitimate residence allow and referred to as for even more durable motion. In an interview with CBS broadcaster revealed on Sunday, Trump responded to the query of whether or not ICE’s operations had gone too far: “I think they didn’t go far enough.”

Interviewer Norah O’Donnell pointed to cases by which ICE officers threw a lady to the bottom, used tear gasoline in residential areas and smashed automotive home windows. “Are you okay with these tactics?” she requested. “Yes, because you have to get people out,” the president replied.

During the election marketing campaign, Trump introduced that he would take powerful motion in opposition to immigrants with no legitimate residence allow and deport tens of millions of undocumented foreigners. Since he took workplace in January, ICE officers have been conducting raids throughout the nation. The deployment of closely armed, masked ICE officers in public locations in opposition to suspected unlawful immigrants sparked a bitter debate within the United States.

After protests in opposition to ICE raids within the US metropolis of Los Angeles, Trump despatched the National Guard and US Marines to the Californian metropolis. The deployment of the National Guard to the cities of Portland and Chicago, that are additionally ruled by the opposition Democrats, was initially blocked by federal judges.