June 16, 2025
US President Donald Trump, has directed federal authorities to ramp up deportation efforts in Democratic-led cities, doubling down on a politicized anti-immigration drive after major protests in Los Angeles.
Trump who gave the directive on Sunday, said on his Truth Social platform, “We must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” “These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center.”
The America president, had cited the already debunked right-wing conspiracy theories that significant numbers of undocumented immigrants are voting in US elections.
Trump has made deporting undocumented immigrants a key priority for his second term, after successfully campaigning against an alleged “invasion” by criminals.
Raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in Los Angeles sparked unruly protests and Trump last week deployed 4,000 National Guards and 700 Marines, to quell the protest against the wishes of local and state authorities.
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Meanwhile, California has sued to regain control of the National Guardsmen from Trump, arguing he overstepped his authority. That suit is working its way through federal court.
The Republican president, had in a long screed on Truth Social Sunday, charged that “every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians.”
He insisted that, “nothing will stop us from executing our mission… ICE Officers are herewith ordered … to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”
Trump insisted that “Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities — And they are doing a good job of it!”
“There is something wrong with them,” he said, listing a litany of grievances, including charges that Democrats “believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports.”
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Trump, further stated that it was why he wanted ICE and other law enforcement agencies to focus on America’s crime ridden and deadly inner cities.
He noted that he had directed his entire administration “to put every resource possible behind this effort and reverse the tide of Mass Destruction Migration that has turned once Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia.”
Trump, with his divisive rhetoric, said “I want our brave officers to know that the real Americans were cheering them on every day.“To ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, the Patriots at Pentagon and the State Department, you have my unwavering support.
