President Donald Trump doubled his goal of carrying out mass deportations in some of the largest cities in the country, specifically those administered by Democrats.
When he met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the G7 summit in Alberta on Monday, Trump said the application of immigration and customs should direct his attention to New York and Chicago in addition to Los Angeles.
“I want them to concentrate on cities because cities are where you really have what is called ‘Sanctuary cities,” Trump told journalists. “And that’s where people are.”
The comments occurred after Trump’s Publication of long social networks on Sunday Said said he was ordering ICE to do “everything in his possession” to supervise the largest mass deportation program in history.
“To achieve this, we must expand efforts to stop and deport illegal foreigners in the largest cities in the United States,” Trump wrote.
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (not in the photo) at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, June 16, 2025.
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The president said that these cities are “the core of the Democratic Power Center” and accused the Democrats of using illegal immigration to influence the elections, despite the fact that non -citizens cannot vote in federal or state elections and cases where it occurs are rare. He also said without evidence that illegal immigrants were being used to “grow the welfare.”
“For ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, the Patriots of the Pentagon and the State Department, you have my unwavering support. Now go, do the job!” Trump wrote in the publication.
Trump’s determination about deportations follows protests in Los Angeles and in other areas of the country last week to the repression of immigration of its administration. Last Saturday, immigration was a focus of national demonstrations of “No Kings” against Trump and their policies that attracted thousands of people.
Amid the rejection, Trump last week changed his position on undocumented immigrants who work in agricultural and hospitality industries.
Trump recognized on social networks that his “aggressive policy” was “moving away very good and a lot of time.” The National Security Department later confirmed that it received a new orientation to stop most of the raids in farms, restaurants and hotels.
“Our farmers are being very hurt, they have good workers who have worked for them for 20 years. They are not citizens, but they turned out to be great. We will do something about it,” Trump said at a White House event last week.
Such comments undermined what he and his senior officials have said would be an approach to the “worst of the worst” violent or criminal criminals in their deportation efforts.
Hannah Demissie of ABC News contributed to this report.
