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US not giving ‘an inch’ on immigration arrests, says border czar
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US not giving ‘an inch’ on immigration arrests, says border czar

The Christian Science Monitor·The Christian Science Monitor·27 days ago
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President Donald Trump’s border czar said Tuesday that the administration is hiring 10,000 new deportation officers to remove unauthorized immigrants from the U.S. interior – part of an ongoing hiring spree at the Department of Homeland Security. The move signals that even without the high-profile arrest and detention operations previously seen in U.S. cities, the mass deportation goal – and efforts – remains in place. The Trump administration is not giving “an inch,” Tom Homan told a crowd at a border security conference and trade show in Phoenix. “We’re going to enforce the laws of this country without apology.” After the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by Department of Homeland Security law enforcement in Minneapolis in January, the administration reined in what had become large-scale, public immigration raids.…

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