Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he wants to step up the immigration crackdown by ordering ICE to intervene in other Democrat-run cities.
NEW: President Trump has ordered ICE to "expand efforts to detain and deport" undocumented immigrants in Democratic-run cities.
The directive follows a series of ICE raids in Los Angeles, which sparked major protests and fueled rising tensions, compounded by the deployment of the National Guard without the approval of California authorities.
On Truth Social, Trump said that to achieve the goal of deportations, ICE must step up its efforts to arrest and deport people without legal status in America’s largest cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.
Trump maintains that the people targeted by his deportation policies are found by the millions in cities run by Democrats, citing the presence of « millions and millions of illegal immigrants ».
Trump maintains that these operations must target strategic Democratic strongholds, while he accuses Democrats of seeking to exploit the votes of « illegal aliens » to « cheat at the polls ».
Trump said he had mobilized all possible resources to support his mass deportation effort.
This massive deployment of operations to deport illegal immigrants, ordered by the President, comes at a time when, according to Axios, ICE has already exceeded its budget by more than a billion dollars.
