“We are doing targeted enforcement actions against specific individuals who have had their day in immigration court and have been ordered removed by an immigration judge,” Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Matt Albence told Fox News when asked for an update. “LIGHTS OFF, BLINDS DOWN”New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said there were three ICE operations in his city on Saturday, with no reported arrests. Albence told Fox News that enforcement operations would target families who entered the country illegally then mostly failed to attend court hearings to pursue an asylum claim. Immigration rights activists have said that in many cases immigrants do not receive proper notice of their court dates. In a typical week, ICE arrests thousands of immigrants who are staying in the country illegally, according to government data.

Source: National Post July 15, 2019 00:16 UTC