According to CNN, the operation forms part of the national activities involving the Office for Immigration and Enforcement of Customs (ICE), U.S. Marshals Service (Federal agency responsible, among others, for ensuring safety in courts and transporting prisoners – PAP) and another services. It's their job. detention of immigrants considered a threat to public and national security.
Deportations in Chicago. Trump ordered fresh repression
The fresh Washington administration seeks to strengthen the ICE, which has limited resources and to increase the number of arrests under president Trump's plan for deportations. ICE Field Offices have been instructed to implement daily limit of 75 arrests, which could lead to a crucial increase in detentions throughout the US.
Last year, the agency made an average of around 310 detentions a day.
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‘Repressions These include implementing rules that restrict legal immigration paths, extend the enforcement powers of immigration rules and search to destruct the US citizenship provision granted by birth in the United States. This has exacerbated tensions with Latin American countries," CNN emphasises.
According to the Chicago Tribune, ICE spokesperson Jeff Carter issued a message stating that his agency and another services had begun "enhanced operations in Chicago, aimed at enforcing US immigration laws and maintaining public and national safety by eliminating threats from criminals."
Chicago. Services with additional powers
The ICE refused to disclose details of the number of detainees in Chicago or the charges they had made.
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The Secretary of interior Security, Benjamine Huffman, awarded to law enforcement additional allowances to enforce immigration rules. In turn, the alleged “car” of the White home for Borders, Tom Homan, announced that the authorities would arrest besides undocumented immigrants encountered during the operation, even if they are not the main nonsubjective of the action.
Chicago Police Department reported it does not paper the immigration position of detainees. Nor does he make information available to immigration authorities at national level.
