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Immigration Authorities Currently Conducting Massive, Nationwide Raids in Immigrant Communities
In a significant reversal of previous immigration policy, federal immigration agents are conducting raids in at least 6 states targeting undocumented immigrants regardless criminal record or other status marking them as high priority.
U.S. immigration authorities launched a series of raids, traffic stops and checkpoints in at least half a dozen states across the country on Thursday and Friday, sweeping up an unknown number of undocumented immigrants, immigration lawyers and advocates said.
The raids, which appeared to target scores of undocumented immigrants, including those without criminal records, mark the first largescale episode of immigration enforcement inside the United States since President Trump’s Jan. 26 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally.
Widespread panic has taken hold in communities across the country as the Presidnet follows through on campaign promises to ramp up enforcement of immigration laws.