Slotkin criticizes Trump’s ICE raids and intentions for schools

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Slotkin criticizes Trump’s ICE raids and intentions for schools

Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) criticized President Trump’s recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and his admission that schools could be targeted.

Slotkin was asked on ABC’s “This Week” to comment on the Trump administration’s latest developments, including their mass deportation plans.

“I just don’t understand, if the focus and the priority is on criminals, I’m not sure going after an 11-year-old is where you start,” Slotkin told reporters.

The Michigan senator cited inconsistencies between what is said and done regarding deportation.

“Going after places that were not sanctuary cities, kind of in this sort of arbitrary way,” she was saying.

“The idea of going … to children and terrorizing children, I just don’t believe in supporting that kind of action,” Slotkin went on: “And I don’t believe that most Americans think that 11- and 12-year-olds are the ones who are the hardened criminals that need to go back to their countries.”

Within his first few days in office, Trump launched his deportation campaign, sending ICE agents into various communities and arresting migrants on their list.

The administration proudly announced that the first flight carrying those migrants had taken off, returning them to their home countries.

Trump has formally authorized ICE to begin arresting people in schools and churches, overturning a policy that prohibited arrests in “sensitive” locations.

While there are widespread concerns about Trump’s immigration policy, disrupting children’s lives at school is viewed as an unpopular tactic for ICE to make the desired arrests.

Slotkin believes the Trump team is still in campaign mode and needs to transition to governing.

“They campaigned on this,” she explained of the deportations. “And one of the things that, to me, has been a real hallmark when I listened to some of these immigration announcements lately, is that it’s like they’re still in the campaign right now.”

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