Trump directs ICE to expand deportation efforts in America's largest cities

President Donald Trump connected Sunday said ICE indispensable "expand efforts to detain and deport" amerciable immigrants successful "America's largest [c]ities," including Los Angeles, Chicago and New York."

The president's remark came successful a Truth Social station connected Sunday evening aft a week of anti-ICE protests that person taken spot successful large cities crossed the country, with astir demonstrations remaining peaceful portion others turned into convulsive riots successful places similar LA and Portland.

"Our Nation’s ICE Officers person shown unthinkable strength, determination, and courageousness arsenic they facilitate a precise important mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens successful History," Trump wrote. "Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and adjacent threats from Radical Democrat Politicians, but thing volition halt america from executing our mission, and fulfilling our Mandate to the American People."

"ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by announcement of this TRUTH, to bash each successful their powerfulness to execute the precise important extremity of delivering the azygous largest Mass Deportation Program successful History," the president added.

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President Donald Trump connected Sunday said ICE indispensable "expand efforts to detain and deport" amerciable immigrants successful "America's largest [c]ities," including Los Angeles, Chicago and New York." (Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The migration protests began successful LA connected June 7, aft section ICE raids resulted successful hundreds of arrests, including the arrests of those with convulsive transgression histories. The president instantly deployed the National Guard to the country erstwhile protests started 2 weeks ago, garnering disapproval from Democrats insisting their beingness would lone escalate tensions.

As the protests and riots expanded nationally, continuing into this weekend, unit besides took clasp of definite crowds, injuring some national and section instrumentality enforcement officials, arsenic good arsenic demonstrators. 

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Law enforcement officers drawback a demonstrator extracurricular the U.S. Immigration and Customs gathering during a protestation Saturday, June 14, 2025, successful Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

On Saturday, an guiltless bystander was fatally changeable during an organized protestation successful Salt Lake City, Utah, erstwhile 2 lawsuit peacekeepers successful neon vests opened occurrence connected a suspect, Arturo Gamboa, 24, who ran toward the assemblage with a rifle, and ended up shooting the incorrect person.

In spite of the protests, Trump doubled down connected his efforts to deport amerciable immigrants successful his Sunday post.

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"In bid to execute this, we indispensable grow efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens successful America’s largest Cities, specified arsenic Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, wherever Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside," helium said. "These, and different specified Cities, are the halfway of the Democrat Power Center, wherever they usage Illegal Aliens to grow their Voter Base, cheat successful Elections, and turn the Welfare State, robbing bully paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens."

He added that helium wants ICE officers "to cognize that REAL Americans are cheering [them] connected each day."

Tensions escalated betwixt assemblage members and national agents pursuing an cognition connected Tuesday, June 3, successful Minneapolis. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

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"The American People privation our Cities, Schools, and Communities to beryllium SAFE and FREE from Illegal Alien Crime, Conflict, and Chaos," helium wrote. "That’s wherefore I person directed my full Administration to enactment each assets imaginable down this effort, and reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration that has turned erstwhile Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia. Our Federal Government volition proceed to beryllium focused connected the REMIGRATION of Aliens to the places from wherever they came, and preventing the admittance of ANYONE who undermines the home tranquility of the United States."

ICE has organized respective high-profile raids crossed the state arsenic portion of the president’s run committedness to present mass-deportations. Trump promised to prioritize transgression amerciable aliens, but critics allege the medication is separating families and targeting non-criminal workers.

ICE SWEEPS THROUGH LA BUSINESSES AS LOCAL DEMOCRATS CRY FOUL OVER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

ICE and respective different federal, authorities and section agencies launched a week-long migration enforcement cognition successful the Houston, Texas area, which resulted successful the arrests of 646 amerciable immigrants. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

"I don’t deliberation the president understands that we person full sectors of our system that cannot relation without migrant labor," LA Mayor Karen Bass said connected "State of the Union" Sunday.

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The Trump medication called for a halt connected deportation raids connected cultivation sites, hotels and restaurants, and not to apprehension "noncriminal collaterals" the New York Times reported. The determination came retired of fears that the sweeping raids were hurting cardinal industries successful the U.S.

Fox News' David Spector contributed to this report.