Homeland Security plans massive roundups of undocumented immigrants
The Trump administration is planning nationwide raids to arrest 8,400 undocumented immigrants later this month, according to three law enforcement officials.
An internal document describes the plan as "the largest operation of its kind in the history of ICE," an acronym for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Homeland Security department.
The raids, scheduled over five days beginning Sept. 17, are being called "Operation Mega," according to the document, a memo circulated agency-wide in August.
It is not unusual for ICE operations to target immigrants by the hundreds or even low thousands. The higher-than-usual target number may be partially driven by an effort to reach a deportation goal at the end of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, one of the officials said.
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