ICE Moves To Apprehend And Deport One Million Illegal Immigrants – Here’s Trump’s Response

The recently elected acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Kenneth T. (Ken) Cuccinelli said that the government is now ready to identify, detain, and even deport illegal immigrants who refused to follow court orders to leave the country.

“They’re ready to just perform their mission, which is to go and find and detain and then deport the approximately one million people who have final removal orders,” Ken Cuccinelli said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Cuccinelli was referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which is an agency with the Department of Homeland Security that’s responsible for locating and deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

“Who among those will be targeted for this particular effort, or not,  is really just information kept within ICE at this point,” the acting USCIS director explained.

Cuccinelli’s comments came after President Donald Trump’s announcement to conduct ICE raids across the country. However, the president said the raids were postponed to work with Democrats on a solution to the immigration crisis. At the moment, Trump now appears to be ready to continue where he left off.

“These are people where we have their papers, we’ve gone through the court system. They’ll be starting fairly soon, but I don’t call them raids. We’re removing people that have come — all of these people over the years — that have come in illegally. We are removing them and bringing them back into their country,” Trump said to reporters.

Despite the president’s strong words, Cuccinelli cleared out that he was only referring to the pool of people who were given final removal orders but refused to follow such orders.

“It’s important to note, here we are talking about ICE doing its job as if it’s special. And really this should be going on on a rolling basis for ICE. And they’ve been interfered with effectively and held up by the politics of Washington to a certain extent and they’re looking forward to just getting back to doing their job,” he said. 

Sources: The Political Insider / Photo Credit: Google