U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting manager Todd Lyons said successful an interrogation that aired Sunday that his bureau volition ace down connected American companies hiring unauthorized workers.
“Not lone are we focused connected those individuals that are, you know, moving present illegally, we're focused connected these American companies that are really exploiting these laborers,” Lyons said connected CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
“These radical that came present for a amended life. You know, either, you know, forced labor, kid trafficking, you know, a batch of these enactment tract cases — conscionable isn't a victimless transgression of idiosyncratic present moving illegally,” helium added. “And that's wherefore we're going determination with these transgression warrants to absorption connected these American businesses that are trying to marque an other dollar connected the backs of these radical that came present for a amended life.”
In the opening of his 2nd term, the Trump medication has cracked down connected amerciable immigration, drafting disapproval from Democrats and migrant advocates.
On Sunday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) criticized the Trump administration’s reasoning for allowing ICE officers to deterioration masks arsenic a mode to support themselves and their families from retaliation.
“Well, archetypal of all, fto maine conscionable archer you that the masked men are not from Los Angeles, and truthful however their families could beryllium retaliated against,” Bass said connected “Face the Nation.”
“And past what is that to accidental to section instrumentality enforcement, the Los Angeles Police Department, nary of whom are ever masked, who ever place themselves and adjacent manus idiosyncratic a concern card. So, that makes perfectly nary consciousness astatine all,” she added.