The Department of Homeland Security announced that federal immigration authorities can now conduct enforcement operations in previously off-limits locations, including schools, churches, and courthouses. The policy change follows President Donald Trump’s revocation of a 2011 directive that prohibited Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection from targeting “sensitive” areas, such as schools, places of worship, hospitals, funerals, and public demonstrations. The new guidance also allows ICE to conduct operations near courthouses, primarily focusing on individuals involved in criminal cases
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00:02The Department of Homeland Security announced that federal immigration authorities are now
00:06permitted to conduct enforcement operations in previously off-limits locations, including
00:11schools, churches, and courthouses.
00:13The policy change follows President Donald Trump's re-advocation of the 2011 Directive
00:18that prohibited immigration and custom enforcements and custom of border protection from targeting
00:25sensitive areas such as schools, places of worship, hospitals, funerals, and public
00:30demonstrations.
00:32The new guidance also allows ICE to conduct operations near courthouses, primarily focusing
00:37on individuals involved in criminal cases.