While the world’s attention has been diverted by the US’s ongoing war with Iran, as well as its successful role as co-host of the Fifa World Cup, away from the headlines, Donald Trump has been busy turning his crackdown on illegal immigrants into a brutal numbers game.
The US President’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents have been given orders to round up an increasing number of people from America’s streets, the country’s workplaces and even its airports.
As the Department of Homeland Security seeks to meet the President’s escalating targets, dramatic scenes are being reported at airports across the country, with ICE agents going after foreign citizens with expired US visas.
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One widely shared video from 20 July shows ICE agents dragging a 27-year-old au pair from a jetway in Denver as she boarded a flight to California.
