The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thomas Homan said that arrests by his agency jumped to 41,318 between January 22 of this year and the end of April, up from 30,028 arrests in roughly the same period last year. That increase is a result of recent guidance given by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to implement Trump's executive orders on interior immigration enforcement and border security signed on Jan 25, just days after the Republican president took office. "When a federal judge makes a decision and issues an order that order needs to mean something," Homan said. Immigration advocates and some cities with large immigrant populations have raised concerns about the stepped up enforcement in the interior of the country. On Wednesday, state attorneys general from New York, California, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington state and Washington DC, issued a report laying out why they have chosen to limit local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration agents.

Source: bd News24 May 17, 2017 19:41 UTC