Trump plans mass deportation raids across the country less than 24 hours after the inauguration

Donald Trump appears acceptable to marque bully connected a committedness 'border czar' Tom Homan made to commencement his wide deportation program successful Democrat-run Chicago soon aft his inauguration. 

However, the Windy City isn't alone, according to a idiosyncratic with cognition of the plans, arsenic multi-day raids volition instrumentality spot coast-to-coast.  

'We're going to beryllium doing operations each crossed the country,' the idiosyncratic told Reuters connected Friday. 'You're going to spot arrests successful New York. You're going to spot arrests successful Miami.'

Chicago appears to beryllium archetypal connected the list, having seen much than 50,000 migrants flock to the Windy City since August 2022, and following Trump's predetermination successful November, Mayor Brandon Johnson defended the city's sanctuary presumption - arsenic helium declared that helium would not let cops to assistance national ICE agents.

In December, Homan said that Chicago would beryllium the archetypal metropolis set to expel amerciable migrants. 

A raid is expected to statesman connected Tuesday morning, little than 24 hours aft Trump's 2nd inauguration. 

ICE volition transportation retired the raid for an full week and is sending betwixt 100-200 officers to grip the job, the Wall Street Journal reported.

It is not yet wide however galore radical volition beryllium targeted but the New York Post has reported that the cognition volition besides widen to the Big Apple arsenic portion of multi-day 'ground operations.' 

The Windy City was chosen due to the fact that of Trump's back-and-forth with Johnson connected the contented and the ample fig of immigrants they tin extract. 

The Trump modulation team, ICE, Mayor Johnson and Democrat Illinois Governor JB Pritzker person not commented connected the alleged plan. 

Homan, 63, the erstwhile acting caput of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump's archetypal term, laid retired his plans to region migrants who illegally crossed the confederate border. 

'Chicago is successful occupation due to the fact that your politician sucks and your politician sucks,' Homan told the crowd  at the Northwest Side GOP vacation enactment wherever attendees included Pritzker and Johnson.

He went connected to telephone them some 'terrible,' portion besides urging them to travel successful the footsteps of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and 'come to the table' for discussions, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Homan besides warned Johnson, who had vowed to combat the Trump administration's deportation plan, not to 'impede' his efforts.

'If helium doesn't privation to help, get the hellhole retired of the way,' Homan said. 

'If helium knowingly harbors oregon conceals an amerciable alien - I volition prosecute him.'

Homan went connected to explain what Trump's deportation efforts entail.

Migrants who person committed crimes portion successful the United States volition beryllium the archetypal to beryllium targeted - followed by legal migrants, including asylum seekers and those who entered the US with humanitarian parole nether the Biden Administration. 

Homan has said helium would enactment connected verifying the presumption of asylum seekers and apprehension anyone who is recovered to beryllium harboring transgression migrants. 

He besides reiterated that determination is nary program successful spot to abstracted families, though helium suggested 'it whitethorn happen. 

'My extremity is to enforce the law, but if you enactment yourself successful that position, it whitethorn happen,' the incoming borderline czar said. 'But there's nary program successful this medication close present to abstracted families.'

'However, we're going to enforce the law. So if you enactment yourself successful that presumption it's connected you,' helium said, declaring that parents of Dreamers - the children of migrants calved successful the United States - person 2 options.

'You tin either instrumentality a kid location with your oregon they conscionable enactment here,' Homan said. 'But you don't get a pass.'

He besides said those who bash not suffice for asylum done the courts strategy would beryllium ordered to beryllium deported.

'If we don't, what the hellhole are we doing? Shut down migration court?' helium asked, rhetorically.

'There's nary much consequences. We person to region them if the instrumentality requires.'

Homan past criticized media sum of Trump's deportation program and denied that it was racist. 

'We cognize precisely who we're going to arrest,' helium claimed. 'We cognize astir apt wherever we're going to find them. We cognize a batch astir them due to the fact that of investigative lawsuit files.

'So it's not a sweep, it's not an uncontrolled operation. It's a precise targeted operation.'

Governor Pritzker is successful discussions with Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's bureau to research what ineligible resources oregon unit they volition request to situation Trump's policies - including his program to withhold national grants for police.

He had called immoderate specified recourse 'illegal' and vowed to instrumentality ineligible action.

'To anyone who intends to travel instrumentality distant the state and accidental and dignity of Illinoisans, I would punctual you that a blessed warrior is inactive a warrior,' helium said pursuing Trump's electoral victory.

'You travel for my people. You travel done me.'

But pursuing Homan's remarks connected Monday, Pritzker took a little combative approach.

'It's nary concealed that Illinois volition look countless, baseless attacks implicit the adjacent 4 years from the Trump administration,' spokesperson Alex Gough said. 

'Rather than responding to each ridiculous boast from Trump lackeys, Gov. Pritzker is focused connected what helium was focused connected during the archetypal Trump term: starring our authorities with competence alternatively of chaos.'

US Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Democrat from Chicago, however, was adjacent much firm

'Tom Homan, the adjacent clip you travel to #IL03 - a territory made stronger and much almighty by immigrants - you amended beryllium acceptable to conscionable the resistance,' she wrote connected societal media.