Trump news at a glance: immigration agents to ‘flood’ US sanctuary cities as marines withdraw from LA
by Guardian staff from US news | The Guardian on (#6YSZT)
Trump's border tsar vows to flood the zone' with Ice officers, 700 marines redeployed and president's megabill estimated to pile $3.4tn on to national debt. Key US politics stories from Monday 21 July
The Trump administration is targeting US sanctuary cities in the next phase of its deportation drive, after an off-duty law enforcement officer was allegedly shot in New York City by an undocumented person with a criminal record.
Tom Homan, Donald Trump's hardline border tsar, vowed to flood the zone" with Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (Ice) agents, saying: Every sanctuary city is unsafe. Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for criminals and President Trump's not going to tolerate it."
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