The immigration customs enforcement officer badge is considered a federal agent patrolling the halls of New York City’s immigration court on June 10, 2025 (Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced late Sunday that he was instructing U.S. immigration customs and enforcement officers to carry out immigration raids in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
The announcement escalates a week-long conflict in Los Angeles, where massive protests began after immigration officers began arresting day workers at home depots in the city. Trump has directed LA to 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines in protest without the consent of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“I want ice, border patrols and our great, patriotic law enforcement officers to focus on the deadly internal cities that ride our crimes and where sanctuary cities play such a big role,” Trump said. I wrote it on social mediaSee cities that do not coordinate with federal immigration officials for civil enforcement. “We haven’t heard of the city of our Heartland sanctuary!”
Trump’s Sunday social media post targeting immigration enforcement in the city came after the June 12th post. He acknowledged that his immigration crackdown has harmed tourism and the agriculture industry. Republican states generally have fewer major cities and more rural areas.
“The great farmers and people in hotel and leisure businesses have said that very positive policies on immigration are very good, that they have kept long-time workers away from them and that it is almost impossible to trade those jobs,” Trump wrote last week.
The president spoke with Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins and then directed the ice to suspend the farm attack. According to the New York Times.
The agricultural sector estimates that Approximately 40% of farm workers There is no legal approval.
However, supporters of farm workers, including United farm workers, said immigration officers had not suspended enforcement.
“If President Trump is actually in charge, he needs to prove it. Stop the sweep of hardworking Californians.” The UFW said in a statement.
June 10th Immigrant attack Some protests have been launched in the city at a meat processing plant in Omaha, Nebraska, where around 80 workers were detained.
In his social media post, Trump wrote that it should be considered a presidential order.
“This notice of truth has led the ice officers to do everything in their power to achieve the very important goal of providing the single largest deportation program in history,” he wrote.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not respond to newsroom requests regarding details regarding the President’s Sunday directives to ice officers.
Non-citizen vote
Trump targeted Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pretzker and in an interview with Canadian world leaders on Monday that Chicago was “covered by criminals.”
“I think they’ll use them to vote,” Trump said of non-citizens who live in Democrat-run cities.
Without evidence, the president argued in Sunday’s post that “cores of the Democratic Power Centers” in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York allowed citizenship to vote in federal elections, but that was not true. The practice is illegal, and research shows that Very rare.
a A federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order last week It would have required states to require mandatory voters in federal elections to provide documentation certifying their citizenship.
Last week, Pretzker and Democratic governors of Minnesota and New York He testified for eight hours before the assembly. About the state’s policy of not coordinating with federal immigration officials.
house A Republican brought it On the same issue with mayors of Boston, Chicago and Denver in March.
The focus of protest
The Ice President’s order continued Weekend military parade To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Army, coinciding with Trump’s 79th birthday, which sparked anti-Trump protests.
It was held by millions of people across the country “There’s no king” protests According to the organisers, it is against the Trump administration. The protests often included ICE’s responsibilities for aggressive immigration crackdowns.
Protests in LA Legal conflict The government and the state have concluded the migrant raid.
Since returning to the White House, the Trump administration has expanded its authority to rapidly deport immigrants to immigrants.
Trump’s second week in office, DHS Restored the 2019 policy It is known as rapid removal. This means that immigrants must prove that they have been in the United States for more than two years, without legal approval, anywhere in the country encountered federal enforcement.
If they are unable to generate that evidence, they will be subject to fast truck deportation without appearing before an immigration judge for legitimate proceedings.
