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Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump's border czar defends increasing number of arrests of non-violent migrants: ‘We're gonna enforce law'
President Donald Trump's 'border czar' has defended the increasing number of arrests of non-violent migrants, saying 'that's our job.' On Monday, Tom Homan said that although public safety threats were a priority, those who were in the country illegally were 'not off the table.' 'We're gonna enforce immigration law,' he said. Homan's remarks follow public backlash to the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda. White House senior advisor Stephen Miller told Fox News last month that Immigration and Customs Enforcement set a goal of a 'minimum' of 3,000 arrests a day. Miller also reportedly told ICE officials to target community hubs, Home Depot parking lots and 7-Eleven convenience stores to find suspects, according to The Wall Street Journal. Homan offered a similar hardline stance on Monday. 'National security threats, public safety threats are always the priority,' he told reporters. 'But if you're in the country illegally you're not off the table. ' 'I mean I see people saying we're arresting non-criminals. Well, they're in the country illegally, that's our job,' he said. 'We told ICE agents in the process of going out looking for the bad guy — and this is the problem with sanctuary cities. When we go to a community to go find the criminal, many times they're with others. Others that may not be a criminal target, but they're in the United States illegally they're coming too. We're gonna enforce immigration law.' Homan went on to claim that former Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, had instructed ICE agents not to arrest 'illegal aliens for simply being here illegally… 'They've got to be arrested [or] be convicted of a serious criminal offense.' He re-wrote the law. That's not what the law says.' 'We're gonna enforce the law,' Homan added. 'That's why the people put President Trump in office to do and that's what we're doing.' Despite the president's pledge to aggressively pursue 'the worst of the worst,' among immigrants in detention now, 47 percent have no criminal record whatsoever, and fewer than 30 percent have been convicted of crimes, according to analysis from The Independent. The number of people without a criminal record being arrested by ICE agents and held in detention has jumped 800 percent since January, according to reports. This enforcement drive has resulted in more than 51,000 immigrants imprisoned in ICE detention centers, and likely marks the first time in American history that the United States has detained more than 50,000 immigrants at once.
Bloomberg
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Trump Immigration Enforcer Says ICE Will Boost Raids in New York
Tom Homan, the border czar for President Donald Trump, said that immigration agents will ramp up arrests in New York City as part of a broader crackdown on sanctuary jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal authorities. 'We're going to be in New York City,' Homan told reporters at the White House on Monday. 'President Trump said it two weeks ago — we're going to double down and triple down on sanctuary cities. Why? Not because it's a blue city or a blue state, but because we know that's where the problem is.'
The Guardian
01-07-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Trump administration sues Los Angeles over immigration policies
Donald Trump's administration has sued the city of Los Angeles over its immigration policies, claiming that city law discriminates against federal law enforcement and is obstructing the enforcement of immigration laws with sanctuary policies that bar local police from sharing information on people without legal status. Filed in the central district of California, the lawsuit says Donald Trump 'campaigned and won the presidential election on a platform of deporting the millions of illegal immigrants the previous administration permitted, through its open borders policy, to enter the country unlawfully'. It is the latest in a string of lawsuits against so-called sanctuary jurisdictions – including New York,New Jersey and Colorado – that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Los Angeles's sanctuary city ordinance bars city resources from being used for immigration enforcement. The court filing calls the city ordinance 'illegal' and asks that it be blocked from being enforced as the White House cracks down on what it calls a 'crisis of illegal immigration'. Attorney general Pam Bondi said in a statement: 'Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles. Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.' It comes weeks after protests over the administration's highly aggressive and hostile deportation agenda exploded in Los Angeles. The protesters – along with city mayor Karen Bass and state governor Gavin Newsom – have subsequently become key targets for Trump and his allies. Over the past three weeks, immigration agents have swarmed southern California, arresting hundreds of people and prompting the protests. Tens of thousands of people participated in rallies over immigration raids and the subsequent deployment of the national guard and marines. Los Angeles police have arrested over 100 people on various charges from throwing rocks at federal officers to setting fire to Waymo cars equipped with self-driving technology. 'The practical upshot of Los Angeles's refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities has, since 6 June 2025, been lawlessness, rioting, looting, and vandalism,' the court filing says. On 18 June, the mayor lifted a curfew she had imposed a week earlier to prevent vandalism and break-ins during nighttime protests. The demonstrations had been largely concentrated in a few downtown blocks that are home to several federal and local government buildings. Chad Mizelle, Bondi's chief of staff, said in announcing the latest lawsuit that the administration will not tolerate any interference with the federal government's crackdown. 'We will keep enforcing federal immigration law in Los Angeles, whether or not the city's government or residents agree with it,' Mizelle said in a social media post.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump administration sues Los Angeles over sanctuary policies
The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles over its immigration policies, the Justice Department announced Monday, claiming sanctuary policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities clash with federal law. The filing marks an escalation in the Trump administration's feuding with California over immigration, and is the latest strike by DOJ against sanctuary-city laws in various states. 'Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,' Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in the press release. 'Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.' The filing, which names the city, Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council, follows a wave of protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids targeting farms and businesses. It comes as the Trump administration is locked in separate litigation with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who sued the administration to block the deployment of the National Guard in the city in response to the upheaval. The latest lawsuit argues that the city's 'refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities' has led to 'lawlessness, rioting, looting, and vandalism.' Los Angeles had lifted a curfew placed in response to the protests after a week as protesting died down. The filing also said that the city's policies are 'designed to and in fact do interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government's enforcement of federal immigration law in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution,' an argument the administration has long used in its attack on sanctuary-city laws. The new suit was assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Olguin, an Obama appointee. Earlier this year, the DOJ sued New York for impeding federal efforts to track down and deport undocumented immigrants, as well as Illinois and Chicago for related policies. In May, the department sued four cities in New Jersey over similar policies. Los Angeles has long employed sanctuary policies, including one that was passed shortly after President Donald Trump took office for his first term. More recently, after Trump won the election last year, the city passed a sanctuary policy prohibiting the use of city resources for federal immigration enforcement. Los Angeles City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez called out Trump for challenging sanctuary policies in California as well as other states, saying in a statement to POLITICO that 'he's trying to force every city and town to help him carry out his white nationalist agenda.' 'This baseless lawsuit only gets one thing right – we refuse to stand by and let Donald Trump deport innocent families. We're going to do everything within our power to keep families together,' Soto-Martinez said in the statement. Bass's office could not be immediately reached for comment.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump sues Los Angeles over sanctuary city policies on immigration
President Donald Trump's administration filed suit Monday against Los Angeles, claiming the city is obstructing the enforcement of immigration laws and creating a lawless environment with its sanctuary policies that bar local police from sharing information on people without legal status.
