Trump Directs Ice To Expand Deportation Efforts In America's Largest Cities

President Donald Trump connected Sunday said ICE must "expand efforts to detain and deport" forbidden 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 awesome cities crossed nan country, pinch astir demonstrations remaining serene while others turned into convulsive riots successful places for illustration LA and Portland.

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

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

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President Donald Trump connected Sunday said ICE must "expand efforts to detain and deport" forbidden 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 nan arrests of those pinch convulsive criminal histories. The president instantly deployed nan National Guard to nan area erstwhile protests started 2 weeks ago, garnering disapproval from Democrats insisting their beingness would only escalate tensions.

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

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Law enforcement officers drawback a demonstrator extracurricular nan U.S. Immigration and Customs building 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 arena peacekeepers successful neon vests opened occurrence connected a suspect, Arturo Gamboa, 24, who ran toward nan crowd pinch a rifle, and ended up shooting nan incorrect person.

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

TRUMP SAYS NATIONWIDE IMMIGRATION RAIDS ON THE WAY, RIOTERS TO FACE 'GREATER FORCE' THAN LA

"In bid to execute this, we must 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," he said. "These, and different specified Cities, are nan halfway of nan Democrat Power Center, wherever they usage Illegal Aliens to grow their Voter Base, cheat successful Elections, and turn nan Welfare State, robbing bully paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens."

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

Tensions escalated betwixt organization 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 want our Cities, Schools, and Communities to beryllium SAFE and FREE from Illegal Alien Crime, Conflict, and Chaos," he wrote. "That’s why I person directed my full Administration to put each assets imaginable down this effort, and reverse nan tide of Mass Destruction Migration that has turned erstwhile Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia. Our Federal Government will proceed to beryllium focused connected nan REMIGRATION of Aliens to nan places from wherever they came, and preventing nan admittance of ANYONE who undermines nan home tranquility of nan United States."

ICE has organized respective high-profile raids crossed nan state arsenic portion of nan president’s run committedness to present mass-deportations. Trump promised to prioritize criminal forbidden aliens, but critics allege nan management 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 nan Houston, Texas area, which resulted successful nan arrests of 646 forbidden immigrants. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

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

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

Fox News' David Spector contributed to this report.