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Trump threatens to ‘get rid’ of emergency agency Fema and tells states to ‘take care’ of disasters – live

Trump threatens to ‘get rid’ of emergency agency Fema and tells states to ‘take care’ of disasters – live

"President appeared to tie federal help to conditions as he visits Hurricane Helene-ravaged areas in North Carolina before traveling to California

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Donald Trump speaks during a disaster briefing at Asheville Regional Airport in Asheville, North Carolina.Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

Trump weighing deploying up to 10,000 troops to US-Mexico border - report

The Trump administration may deploy as many as 10,000 troops to the US-Mexico border and construct detention facilities for migrants on military bases, CBS News reports.

The president earlier this week sent 1,500 active-duty troops to the border, adding to a preexisting deployment authorized under Joe Biden. The memo circulating in government says Trump may dramatically expand the troop presence to make good on his campaign promise of stopping border crossers. Here’s more, from CBS:

The internal Customs and Border Protection memo dated Jan. 21 indicates there’s a plan to dispatch “~10,000 soldiers” to help the agency’s mission at the southern border. The Trump administration, according to the document, has submitted an “[u]nrestrained request” for the Pentagon to surge resources and personnel to assist CBP with technology and infrastructure.

The memo also says the Defense Department “may” convert its bases into “holding facilities,” presumably to help CBP detain migrants who crossed into the U.S. illegally.

Additionally, the memo shows the Trump administration is planning to dramatically expand detention capacity at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is expected to be at the center of Mr. Trump’s promised mass deportations.

According to the document, ICE officials want 14 new detention facilities with the capacity to hold up to 1,000 migrants each and another four able to accommodate as many as 10,000 immigrant detainees each.

Donald Trump’s threats to carry out mass arrests in cities that have curtailed cooperation with immigration authorities have spread fear throughout communities, the Guardian’s Maanvi Singh reports: 

Chicago’s Lower West Side felt uneasily quiet this week.

Christina Alejandra, a dancer and local business owner in the city’s artsy, majority Mexican American neighborhood, wondered whether it was because of the freezing temperatures, or the impending threat of immigration raids.

The city has been preparing for weeks for a crackdown, after Donald Trump’s new administration made clear that so-called sanctuary cities – communities like Chicago that refuse to hand over immigrants to federal authorities – would be the first targets of its mass-deportation program.

But the fear didn’t really hit Alejandra, who’s 26 and undocumented, until Monday, inauguration day, as Trump began unleashing a barrage of new immigration restrictions. “I’ve never been scared like this before,” she said. The Guardian is not publishing Alejandra’s full name to protect her and her family from immigration enforcement.

Chicago and surrounding areas have seen raids before, including during the first Trump administration. “But this feels different,” Alejandra said. “The way he and his supporters are riled up. There’s a shift happening.”

Such worries have been stirred up in immigrant communities across the US in recent days, amid a flood of new executive orders setting strict limits on who can enter the US, who can stay here and who can call themselves an American, setting off unprecedented waves of panic within the country and at its borders.

Moments after the president was sworn into office, asylum seekers waiting to enter the country learned that their appointments to meet with Customs and Border Protection had been cancelled – and images of devastated and desperate people at the border made a stark diptych with the inaugural ceremonies."

Trump threatens to ‘get rid’ of emergency agency Fema and tells states to ‘take care’ of disasters – live

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