President Donald Trump praised the actions of federal immigration agents Monday and denounced “open-borders extremists” who he said “don’t mind crime.”
More than 150 officers and agents of two federal agencies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, attended the event in the East Room of the White House.
“A coalition of open-borders extremists—and to me that means people that don’t mind crime, they mind it when it happens to them, but they don’t mind it when they have to watch it on television—have waged an unprecedented assault on American law enforcement,” Trump said.
Trump also sent a letter Monday to governors, mayors, and county executives, asking that they pledge their full support and cooperation with ICE and CBP.
The Trump administration has criticized sanctuary policies in some states, cities, and counties that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials.
More recently, some Democrats in Congress have joined activists on the left in calling for the abolishment of ICE, which enforces immigration law throughout the nation’s interior.
“Leading members of the Democrat Party have even launched a campaign to abolish ICE,” Trump said. “In other words, they want to abolish America’s borders. Any politician who puts criminal aliens before American citizens should find a new line of work.”
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