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TOPLINE President Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to build a massive facility at Guant\u00e1namo Bay in Cuba to house deported migrants\u2014following an escalation across the country in recent days as part of what Trump has promised would be the \u201clargest deportation operation\u201d in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

The White House said the “largest deportation operation” in U.S. history was underway. COPYRIGHT 2023 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED<\/p>\n

TIMELINE<\/p>\n

Jan. 29Defense Department officials said Immigration and Customs Enforcement will house arrested migrants at the Buckley Space Force Base near Aurora, Colorado, as the Denver metro area is reportedly among the initial target areas for ICE arrests.<\/p>\n

Jan. 29Trump said he will sign an executive order instructing the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to construct a facility capable of holding 30,000 deported migrants at Guant\u00e1namo Bay naval base as immigration officials have made approximately 6,000 arrests since Trump took office, including 1,016 on Wednesday, straining Homeland Security\u2019s network of detention facilities that were already nearing capacity before the Trump administration ramped up arrests.<\/p>\n

Jan. 27Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it arrested 1,179 people Monday, the largest figure since Trump took office\u2014compared to 308 arrests on Trump\u2019s first full day in office, and 282 arrests per day in September before Trump took over.<\/p>\n

Jan. 27Trump, at a conference for House Republicans in Miami, said he wants people who have been arrested \u201cmany, many times\u201d to get \u201cthe hell out of our country,\u201d suggesting he could pay foreign countries a \u201csmall fee\u201d for them to maintain American prisoners so the United States could cut spending on government-owned and private prisons.<\/p>\n

Jan. 27Several Quaker groups filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security over Trump\u2019s decision to end ICE\u2019s prohibition on operating in churches, alleging Trump\u2019s policy \u201cdeters congregants from attending services\u201d and \u201cis a violation of every individual\u2019s constitutional right to worship and associate freely,\u201d Skye Perryman, president and CEO of the nonprofit Democracy Forward, which is facilitating legal representation for the plaintiffs, told NBC.<\/p>\n

Jan. 26The administration said arrests could pick up quickly: The Washington Post reports ICE officials have been told to aim for 1,200 to 1,500 daily arrests, including at least 75 arrests by each of the agency\u2019s roughly two dozen field offices.<\/p>\n

Jan. 26ICE said it launched \u201cenhanced targeted operations\u201d in Chicago in partnership with the FBI and other federal agencies, while immigration enforcement actions were also reported in Atlanta, Puerto Rico, Colorado, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, according to CNN.<\/p>\n

Jan. 26White House Border Czar Tom Homan, who was on the ground in Chicago alongside Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, told CNN ICE would initially prioritize \u201ccriminal aliens\u201d and \u201cas many public safety and national security threats as possible.\u201d Jan. 26The White House said Colombia backed down from its promise to block military deportation flights, after Trump threatened tariffs and economic sanctions against the country if it did not accept U.S. military planes carrying deported migrants.<\/p>\n

Jan. 25Brazil\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded answers over what it said was \u201cdegrading treatment\u201d of deportees on a U.S. military flight that arrived there Friday carrying 88 passengers, some of whom arrived in handcuffs.<\/p>\n

Jan. 21ICE and Border Patrol agents have been ordered to deport people who cross the border without authorization immediately and conduct \u201cexpedited removals\u201d for people found within the interior of the United States, CBS reported, while major raids are expected in various cities.<\/p>\n

Jan. 20Trump signed a string of executive orders targeting immigration shortly after he was sworn in: The military was ordered to the border, migrants can no longer make advance appointments with border officials, parole programs were suspended and migrants must wait in Mexico while their asylum cases play out.<\/p>\n

WHEN DID THE MASS ARRESTS AND DEPORTATIONS START?<\/p>\n

Deportation flights began Friday as the \u201clargest deportation operation\u201d in U.S. history was underway, according to the White House. It remains to be seen whether the number of deportations surpass the number under Biden\u2014which was greater than the number under the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n

WHERE WILL THE DEPORTATIONS HAPPEN?<\/p>\n

The Trump administration is reportedly aiming to make examples of sanctuary cities\u2014which have policies not to cooperate with the federal government on immigration enforcement\u2014by conducting mass arrests there first, according to the Wall Street Journal. NBC lists Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Denver and D.C. as possible early targets, citing unnamed sources. Cities with large immigration shelter systems, including Los Angeles, Denver and Miami, are also targets, the Journal reported. ICE said it carried out a \u201ctargeted enforcement operation\u201d in the sanctuary city of Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday, though it\u2019s not immediately clear whether the operation was linked to the agency\u2019s larger deportation efforts. A mass arrest operation was expected to begin in Chicago Tuesday, the day after Trump was inaugurated, the Journal reported last week, citing unnamed sources familiar with the planning who said ICE would send 100 to 200 officers there to make the arrests. The operation does not appear to have come to fruition yet, though ICE says an operation is planned in Chicago for Sunday\u2014and while recent ICE arrests have drawn publicity, it\u2019s unclear if they are related to Trump\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

WHO IS BEING TARGETED?<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly emphasized that migrants accused of crimes will be the initial targets for deportation, but he\u2019s also said all migrants in the U.S. illegally could be subject to deportations. Homan has said ICE could arrest undocumented immigrants who aren\u2019t suspected of crimes but were found near people who were ICE targets\u2014known as \u201ccollateral arrests.\u201d His administration expanded a policy that allows federal officials to expedite deportations for migrants who can not prove they have applied for asylum and have been in the U.S. for less than two years. Previously, officials were only allowed to process migrants for expedited removal who were apprehended within 100 miles of the border and could prove they had been in the U.S. for at least two weeks, but the expanded policy applies to the entire U.S. The American Civil Liberties Union has challenged the expanded expedited removal rule in court.<\/p>\n

WHY ARE \u2018MASS DEPORTATIONS\u2019 DIFFICULT?<\/p>\n

While Trump has said the deportations would begin \u201cvery quickly,\u201d some of the operations will likely require Congress to approve additional funding, as ICE already faces a budget shortfall to maintain existing deportation levels in the current spending plan that expires on March 14, according to NBC. There are also a limited number of beds to hold people in pre-deportation and planes to use for deportation flights, though Trump ordered the military to assist with aircraft and detention space\u2014and removals are only possible if countries are willing to accept deportees, posing a challenge as some countries like Colombia push back.<\/p>\n

HOW ARE LOCAL OFFICIALS PREPARING?<\/p>\n

Leaders in sanctuary cities are taking a mixed approach. Some, including in New York City and Philadelphia, have softened their rhetoric against Trump\u2019s hardline immigration policies, apparently aware that criticizing the initiatives could make them targets for raids. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker and District Attorney Larry Krasner did not answer directly when asked by NBC in recent days whether the city was a sanctuary city, for example. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has continued to own the label, but he has criticized the Biden administration as the city has dealt with an influx of migrants over the past year. Other local leaders in sanctuary cities, including in Chicago and Denver, have doubled down on their vows to protect migrants in the wake of Trump\u2019s election. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston suggested that citizens and local police could team together to physically prevent ICE arrests, he told the Denverite last month.<\/p>\n

HAVE CITIZENS BEEN CAUGHT UP IN RAIDS?<\/p>\n

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said Thursday that ICE agents raided a \u201clocal establishment\u201d without a warrant and detained \u201cundocumented residents\u201d as well as some U.S. citizens. Among the detainees was a U.S. military veteran, who Baras said \u201csuffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned.\u201d ICE reportedly said the agency may encounter U.S. citizens while conducting operations and may request identification to \u201cestablish an individual\u2019s identity,\u201d citing the Newark raid.<\/p>\n

DO CHURCHES PROVIDE COVER FOR MASS DEPORTATIONS?<\/p>\n

No. The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was cancelling a policy preventing ICE from making arrests in schools, churches and hospitals. The administration has also indicated it could conduct raids at workplaces, a tactic the Biden administration typically avoided.<\/p>\n

Culled from Forbes Magazine.<\/p>\n

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