Kristi Noem Confirms Plan To Expand Ice Operations In Major Cities

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Sunday that nan Trump management plans to grow Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations successful awesome cities, including Chicago.

Asked astir plans to grow ICE operations successful Chicago specifically, Noem told CBS News’ “Face nan Nation,” “We’ve already had ongoing operations pinch ICE successful Chicago and passim Illinois and different states, making judge that we’re upholding our laws, but we do intend to adhd much resources to those operations.”

Asked astir what an description of ICE operations would look for illustration successful Chicago and whether it would impact a mobilization of National Guard troops to assistance pinch migration raids and arrests, Noem demurred, saying, “That ever is simply a prerogative of President [Donald] Trump and his decision. I won’t speak to nan specifics of nan operations that are planned successful different cities.”

Her remarks travel 1 time aft Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order directing his city’s ineligible section to research ways to antagonistic a imaginable surge successful national rule enforcement and National Guard troops to Illinois.

During a property convention Saturday, Johnson warned that Chicago officials had “received reliable reports that we person days, not weeks, earlier our cities spot immoderate type of militarized activity by nan national government.”

Earlier this month, nan Trump management directed national rule enforcement officers, including those employed by ICE, to assistance constabulary successful Washington, D.C., pinch crime-fighting operations. That surge of resources included thousands of National Guard troops who were deployed to nan nation’s superior pinch nan stated extremity of lowering crime rates.

Following nan activity of troops and rule enforcement officers to Washington, Trump threatened to nonstop national officers and troops to different awesome American cities, including Baltimore.

Later successful nan Sunday interview, Noem was asked whether Boston would beryllium 1 of nan cities wherever nan national authorities would surge migration enforcement agents.

“There’s a batch of cities that are dealing pinch crime and unit correct now, and truthful we haven’t taken thing disconnected nan table,” she said, adding later: “I’d promote each azygous large metropolis — San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, immoderate they are — if they want to thief make their metropolis safer, much prosperous, let group nan opportunity to locomotion successful state for illustration nan group of Washington, D.C., are now ... they should telephone us.”

Other Democratic officials, including a group of complete a twelve governors, person condemned plans to deploy troops to their states.

In a connection past week, they said, “Whether it’s Illinois, Maryland and New York aliases different authorities tomorrow, nan President’s threats and efforts to deploy a state’s National Guard without nan petition and consent of that state’s politician is an alarming maltreatment of power, ineffective, and undermines nan ngo of our work members.”

And successful an question and reply that aired Sunday connected “Face nan Nation,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, said, “We don’t want troops connected nan streets of American cities. That’s un-American. Frankly, nan president of nan United States ought to cognize better.”

Pritzker besides accused nan Trump management of targeting states tally by Democrats alternatively than those tally by Republicans, telling CBS, “Notice he ne'er talks astir wherever nan astir convulsive crime is occurring, which is successful reddish states. ... Their convulsive crime rates are overmuch worse successful different places, and we’re very proud of nan activity that we’ve done.”

Asked whether location are plans successful spot to deploy troops and national rule enforcement officials to states and cities tally by Republicans, Noem said, “Absolutely.”

“Every azygous metropolis is evaluated for what we request to do location to make it safer. So we’ve sewage operations that, again, I won’t talk astir specifications on, but we perfectly are not looking done nan viewpoint astatine thing we’re doing pinch a governmental lens,” she added.