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Donald Trump had promised for Sunday a wave of raids police to stop thousands of illegal immigrants in the United States. No major activity was reported in mid-afternoon in the major US cities targeted by the operation, but thousands of undocumented migrants live in fear of deportation.
With our correspondent in New York, Grégoire Pourtier
While Donald Trump had warned that the arrests of illegal aliens would start this Sunday, operations took place in New York on Saturday night. But the residents of two homes reportedly managed to repel the immigration police (ICE), on the pretext that it did not have a mandate in good and due form. In recent days, illegal immigrants have indeed been widely sensitized on their rights by associations.
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The mission of the ICE is also not facilitated by the local authorities. The nine cities targeted by the operation are most often democrat strongholds, or even "sanctuaries" that consider that a clandestine is not an outlaw. Thus, even if the Trump administration has confirmed that the operation was started, the echoes of the morning reflected a certain calm, no drama or violent event has in any case been reported.
Regretted last month, and curiously announced with a crash that would require discretion, this operation theoretically targets a million people, although the immigration police should, for logistical reasons, focus on about 2,000 people at first.
Whatever the number of arrests, the White House has already managed to spread the Americans a little more, and to terrorize millions of immigrants who are now afraid to knock on their door. A "politicization" denounced by a former director of the ICE, especially as it also endangers the agents of the State.