Trump’s immigration forces are targeting multiple cities, a border chief told Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s “border chief,” Tom Homan, said on Saturday that a crackdown on illegal immigrants in the US would begin next week, and indicated that it would involve several cities.

Asked on Fox News if raids on deportees would begin in many cities, including Chicago, Homan said, “I wouldn’t categorize them as raids. There will be enforcement programs.”

Asked how these jobs would be received in sanctuary cities, which have promised not to use city resources to attack immigrants, Homan suggested that the incoming Trump administration would target city jails.

“We want to arrest the bad guy in the security and safety of the county jail.”

A source told Reuters on Friday that New York and Miami would be targeted. The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement will conduct a week-long operation in Chicago with hundreds of agents.

Homan, the former acting director of ICE, said the agency plans its operations carefully.

“They (ICE) will know who is in the home, including the children … All the targets of this operation are well planned, and the entire team will be there for police safety reasons.”

Asked when Trump’s promised deportation flights would begin next week, Homan did not elaborate.

“We have more than 700,000 aliens in the United States who issued the final order. President Trump has been clear from day one … he’s going to secure the border and he’s going to pursue deportation.”