President Donald Trump on Tuesday shielded Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, seeking to tamp down on growing opposition to improper arrests and documented misuses of force witnessed while agents carry out the president’s deportation agenda.
Much of Trump’s remarks, delivered to reporters in the White House press briefing room on Tuesday, the first anniversary of his second inauguration, focused on the federal government’s operations in Minnesota.
The president lauded ICE for allegedly arresting “tens of thousands of illegal alien gang members, drug dealers, murderers, drug runners, human traffickers, fraudsters, and savage criminals.”
The president, however, appeared to acknowledge the documented overreaches by ICE agents, including the multiple improper detainments of American citizens.
“They’re going to make mistakes. Sometimes ICE is going to be too rough
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