Enforcement Surge: Guatemala City and Ice

enforcement surge: ICE officials initially said that this week's actions were routine and nothing outside the ordinary, according to Huffington Post Canada. But in a conference call with reporters Friday evening, an ICE official appeared to contradict that statement, saying that the agencies targeted several cities in an enforcement surge. Immigrant rights advocates reported an uptick in Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests including the detention of people who were considered low priority for removal until Trump signed an order last month making nearly every undocumented immigrant an important target for deportation. Rep. Deportee Eric Perez, 23, greets his daughter Kimberly, 18 months, after he arrived on an ICE deportation flight on Thursday to Guatemala City, Guatemala. Joaqu n Castro D-Texas said ICE's San Antonio field office told him that South and Central Texas were also targeted as part of an operation called Cross Check. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.