By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
President Trump threatened mass roundups of undocumented immigrants over the weekend, but nothing remotely close to that happened.
There were only scattered reports of ICE raids in New York City and a small town in Florida.
Raids expected in major cities, including Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, Denver, Philadelphia and Atlanta, never happened, at least not on a large scale. Many of those cities only saw large protests, which underscore the anxiety nationwide as immigrant communities grapple with what’s next.
Mayors in Los Angeles and New York City criticized Trump’s threats.
“Here’s the blunt truth: @realDonaldTrump isn’t trying to ‘secure our borders.’ He’s trying to make America HATE again,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted.
Ice declined to comment on the raids – or lack of them.
“As always, ICE prioritizes the arrest and removal of unlawfully present aliens who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security,” an ICE spokeswoman told The Wall Street Journal.
White House officials walked back some of the threats of large-scale raids.
“I take issue with the word ‘raids,’” Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary and communications director, said Sunday. “These are law enforcement officials carrying out law enforcement operations as they have done in the past and will continue to do.”
