Critics are calling out President Donald Trump for a divisive Sunday night announcement that law enforcement would target migrants in cities at “the core of the Democrat Power Center.”
Trump said on Truth Social that he was ordering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conduct “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”
He wrote that he was expanding operations in the nation’s biggest cities, including Los Angeles ― where he has already sent the military to contend with recurring protests against his immigration policies ― as well as Chicago and New York.
“These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens,” Trump claimed. “These 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.”
The president’s rant came just one day after a gunman shot and killed a Democratic lawmaker and her husband, shot and wounded another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, and reportedly had a manifesto targeting “many lawmakers and other officials.”
The president’s critics fired back: