On the orders of US President Donald Trump, the crackdown against illegal immigrants has intensified. Detention centers are full. The situation is such that illegal immigrants are now being put in jails.
Illegal immigrants are being held along with other hardened criminals in nine federal prisons, including Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta and Kansas. The detention center of Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) has the capacity to hold only 41 thousand people. There are about 2 thousand Indians in these centres
About 1200 illegal immigrants are being arrested every day. Trump’s border czar Homeman has given orders to police commissioners to identify and arrest illegal immigrants. A police task force has also been formed for this. It will be able to arrest from the streets also.
In America, only ICE arrests illegal immigrants. This will happen after 25 years when the local police has also been entrusted with the responsibility. The police of the states are also being trained by the Trump administration.
In the harsh winter, illegal immigrants have to sleep on the cold floor. They are being crammed into the worst cells of the jail. Illegal immigrants are taken out of the cell only for half an hour throughout the day.