@SirLinksALot The article says, "Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a pro-immigrant advocacy group, said the wave of detentions harks back to the George W. Bush administration, when workplace raids to sweep up all undocumented workers were common. The Obama administration conducted a spate of raids, and also pursued a more aggressive deportation policy than any previous president, sending more than 400,000 people back to their birth countries at the height of his deportations in 2012. The public outcry over the lengthy detentions and deportations of women, children and people with minor offenses led Obama in his second term to prioritize convicted criminals for deportation."
The above shows illegals have been sent back by both Obama and Bush, so this isn't totally a new operation. I recall gong to a popular Mexican restaurant in the NASA area of Texas, where I lived. This was in the last part of the 1990s. I couldn't get in the restaurant as there was a law enforcement officer blocking the door. Before I got back in my car, law enforcement was bringing out a number of men. These were all illegals working in the restaurant. Not long after that, less than a month, the restaurant closed.
What is happening now, is, I think, ICE going into sanctuary cities, and deporting illegals but this has been happening under both Obama and Bush - it is just happening in this new administration so more people are paying attention. In Texas, our Governor Greg Abbott, is cracking down on sanctuary cities and there is new legislation in our legislature, putting sanctuary cities in the cross hairs to go after them and the officials in those areas who are not enforcing immigration laws. Once these laws are passed, I expect they will allow officials not following the law, to be charged for not doing their lawful duty, and removed from office. I need to go to our legislature website and look at the laws going through the legislature now. On their website, it is simple to find laws going through the process. Anyone in any state can do that.