Trump Planning Immigration Raids

President Trump announced that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement will conduct multiple raids on undocumented immigrants in the next several days.

The New York Times said the undocumented immigrants will be held in detention centers until they can be deported.  It’s a development that could have a serious impact on farms and food processors across the country.  The raids will focus on people who’ve arrived recently in the United States.

Fox News said the raids could be a way to force Democrats to change asylum laws.  However, The Hagstrom Report said the move could also be a way for the president to draw attention away from the fact that he’s giving up the right to ask people on the 2020 U.S. Census if they are citizens of the U.S.

In a Rose Garden announcement, Trump said, “I’m ordering every federal government agency and department to provide the Department of Commerce with all requested records on the number of citizens and non-citizens currently in our country.” The president says the government will utilize their “vast federal databases” to gain a full, complete, and accurate count of the noncitizen population in America.

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