Trump Orders ICE to Expand Deportations in Largest Cities Including New York and Chicago
"President Donald Trump directed federal officials to expand efforts to deport migrants in the largest US cities in the face of protests and court challenges, even as his administration is looking to ease the impact of the crackdown on key sectors of the American workforce.
“ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,” Trump said in a post to social media on Sunday.
“In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” he added.
Trump’s move to ramp up immigration enforcement in big Democratically-controlled cities comes a week after the president acknowledged the impact his deportation agenda has had in rural communities hit hard by the loss of agricultural workers. The president said he would craft policy changes to cover farm and hotel industry workers, recognizing concerns from business leaders regarding some critical sectors of the country’s labor force.
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Stephen Miller, a top Trump aide and an architect of the administration’s hardline policies, told ICE officials in a tense meeting last month that arrests should average a minimum of 3,000 a day. Data earlier this month showed the US workforce shrank in May, partly because of the largest back-to-back decline in the number of foreign workers in the labor force since 2020.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-16/trump-tells-ice-to-expand-deportations-in-largest-cities?srnd=homepage-americas
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