CRIME/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security had planned nationwide raids to target 8,400 undocumented immigrants later this month, according to three law enforcement officials and an internal document that described the plan as ‘the largest operation of its kind in the history of ICE,’ an acronym for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But after NBC News reported the plans late Thursday [9-7-17], the agency issued a statement saying it had cancelled nationwide enforcement actions due to Hurricane Irma and the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey…
Prior to the initial NBC News report, another spokeswoman for ICE, Jennifer Elzea, had said the agency was ‘not able to speculate about potential future targeted enforcement actions.’
The raids were scheduled over five days beginning Sept. 17, and were called ‘Operation Mega,’ according to the document, a memo circulated agency-wide in August.
It is not unusual for ICE operations to target immigrants by the hundreds or even low thousands. The higher-than-usual target number may have been partially driven by an effort to reach a deportation goal by the end of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, one of the officials said.”
-Julia Ainsley and Andrew Blankstein, “Homeland Security Cancels Massive Roundups of Undocumented Immigrants,” NBC News, Sept. 7, 2017 07:59pm