USA Today
Immigrant communities across the U.S. braced Sunday for federal raids and detentions promised by President Donald Trump.
Trump confirmed the raids Friday after reports that thousands of immigrants would be arrested starting Sunday in major U.S. cities. Immigration reform advocates said the raids would tear apart families and sow further mistrust of the government. In preparation, advocates staffed hotlines, printed fliers with legal information and activated networks of volunteers to monitor and document Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Friday that the city’s police would not cooperate with any ICE operations and that the city was gearing up to protect its immigrants. “If you want to come after them, you’re going to have to come through us,” she said.
In Denver and other cities, government human-service workers were on standby to find foster homes for any children left behind if their parents were detained and marked for deportation. In many cases, immigrants who lack legal permission to remain in the United States have minor children who are U.S. citizens.
Immigration reform advocates expected that communities around Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco would be targeted in the raids expected to last through at least Thursday. Trump said convicted criminals in the country illegally are being targeted first.
“It starts on Sunday and they’re going to take people out and they’re going to bring them back to their countries,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday. “We are focused on criminals as much as we can before we do anything else.”
Thank G-d for the POTUS. He is truly a man of his word. Our country is one that opens its doors to legal immigrants. Thank God he is working to close our door to illegal invaders.
we are all immigrants, the torah says to love the stranger
but the Torah doesn’t tell us to love anyone who tries to sneak in illegally without following the rules
You mean like every white European invader that came and stole this land from the Native Americans?
In what sense did any land “belong” to any Indians? Which ones, specifically? All the land was hefker, and people from Europe had the same right as any Indian to settle it, farm it, and establish their ownership of it.