The raids of the Immigration and Customs Department in Chicago raises the concern of the population

US federal agencies have started fulfilling a promise to deport illegal immigrants, with the support of the White House and the executive orders of new President Donald Trump.

On Sunday, clients from the Immigration and Customs Department intensified their operations in Chicago, in cooperation with the FBI and other agencies, to “enforce the American immigration law and maintain public safety and national security, by removing the potential dangerous criminals from our societies,” according to the department in A statement on the X platform.

The government agency did not provide details about the number of people detained.

Acting Deputy Prosecutor, Emile Bouv, was in Chicago to help oversee the operations.

The Trump administration said that the priority for it is to find the illegal immigrants in the United States and who have criminal records and deport them, but the raids of the Immigration and Customs circle are concerned about the population.

Opinion policy shows that this policy has great support from voters through the political spectrum, with many of them also supported targeting other groups of illegal immigrants.

Political responsibility

The right -wing shift over immigration came after a wave of asylum seekers during the administration of former President Joe Biden, which turned the case into a political responsibility for the President of President, Kamala Harris, in the November elections.

A recent opinion poll conducted by Epsos, in cooperation with the New York Times, showed that a clear majority of Americans, including 44% of Democrats, supported the deportation of individuals who entered the country illegally over the past four years.

This policy also supported 54% of Spanish migrants.

When the respondents were asked about illegal immigrants who have criminal records, nine out of 10 participants agreed that they must be deported.

“I think Trump is on the right track,” says John Burke, a Trump voter who runs a shopping store in Chicago.

On the target of the deportation, he says: “I am sure that many people are good.”

Trump’s policies will again test the old American tension between the appreciation of migrants and the border securing the unorganized flow.

In the past few years, the public has become less welcome to immigrants in general.

But while Americans support the power of the deportation of criminals, many also say that there should be paths to obtain a legal status for persons committed to law, many of whom have lived in the United States for decades.

In November, an opinion poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 43% of the participants who supported the collective deportation also said that unauthorized residents should have legal paths.

backlash

It is not likely that the clear contradictions in public opinion will prevent the new main public from implementing an expanded deportation agenda, but there is a lot of anxiety and great contrast in views, and on this issue some experts say that this policy may lead to a violent reaction if the administration’s tactics are very harsh. .

Although the Americans in general support the idea of ​​deporting illegal immigrants, they may support or not support the details, as the former official of the Ministry of Internal Security in Bush and Obama administrations says.

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These details include arrests in churches and mosques, and separating children born in the United States from parents who have no legal status.

Last week, the Ministry of Internal Security canceled the previous guidelines to avoid arrests in “sensitive places”, such as schools, hospitals and places of worship.

In 2022, the federal government estimated the total number of unauthorized populations at about 11 million.

This is now less than the real number, given that millions of others entered without prior visa approvals during the era of President Joe Biden, and among the residents of immigrants who currently lack the legal status the majority came before 2010, and some spent decades in the United States and settled in it.

Presidential pardon programs

The immigrant Marco Duran crossed the southern border of his original homeland, Mexico, in the eighties of the last century, when he was the age of four, and he and his parents benefited from the amnesty programs during the President’s administration, Ronald Reagan, who granted a legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.

Today, an American citizen runs a crowded tire repair store, a diversified ethnic neighborhood in Chicago, where many began last week to prepare for raids by the Immigration and Customs Department after news leakage that the city will be the first goal of the efforts to deport illegal immigrants.

While the ice winds were blowing on the city, he sat down, wearing a jacket and a “Bastoul” hat, with earplugs inside his office, and he was wearing thin rubber gloves to protect his hands from dirt caused by changing tires, and tire piles stack around his office.

He opposes the rotation of deportation because people do not have legal or sexual residence, that it is not good for business, as his customers tell him that they are concerned about returning them to their countries of origin, and he says that criminals should be targeted by the Immigration and Customs Department to remove them, and that the matter stops at this point, and adds rotation “If they are criminals and they have a record, then I agree with that,” he said, “If the immigrant is a worker and has a family, and a member of the community, then I do not agree with that.” On “Christian Science Monitor”

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Persons committed to the law

An official in the new US administration said that the Immigration and Customs Administration will send between 100 and 200 officers to carry out the deportation of immigrants in Chicago, but another administration official told Reuters that “Chicago will not be a special axis.”

Meanwhile, the local Democratic Party leaders, including the mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson and the Illinois JP Pritzker, to protect immigrants from Chicago residents from any planned raids.

“These families tear it unacceptable to the Americans,” said Pritzker after Trump.

The governor of the state stressed: “We will defend them in the state of Illinois and do everything we can to protect them.” He continued: “They are good for our state, and they are good for our economy, they are paying taxes, and these people are committed to the law and work to stabilize societies often.”

During the four years that President Joe Biden spent in office, his administration carried out 1.5 million deportations, according to the figures of the Immigration Policy Institute, as this data reflects the size of the operations carried out by successive departments regarding this thorny issue.

. 43 %of the Participants in a poll, during November, said they support collective deportation.

. In 2022, the federal government estimated the total number of unauthorized populations at about 11 million.