After Minnesota, ICE employees were also sent to the state of Maine, also led by a Democratic governor
ICE agents in Minnesota Photo: ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP / Profimedia
The Trump administration has launched an operation to combat illegal immigration in the state of Maine, where several communities of refugees live, including Somalis, announced a current representative and a former official in the field of combating immigration, informs Reuters, taken by Agerpres.
More than 100 agents of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrived this week in the state in the north-east of the USA.
The former official stated that the operation will focus on refugees in the state of Maine.
Maine's political leadership and immigrant communities have been preparing for weeks for the arrival of additional ICE agents.
The state's governor, Democrat Janet Mills, said last week that the Trump administration's aggressive tactics are “not welcome” in Maine.
In recent weeks, approximately 3,000 federal agents have been deployed to the state of Minnesota to combat illegal immigration.
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Tensions in Minnesota have flared between federal and state officials since an ICE agent killed U.S. citizen Renee Good this month and wounded Venezuelan migrant Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis while trying to detain him.
The Department of Homeland Security defended the agents in both cases, saying they were under threat, but Democrats and local officials disputed that characterization and argued the agents should not have been in Minneapolis in the first place.
