Trump admin to prioritize undocumented migrants seen as security threats

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00:00Illegal immigration is atop President Donald Trump's campaign promises and working agenda.

00:05And high on the deportation list are convicted felons, some 1.3 million of them identified

00:11and those considered security threats.

00:13VOA's Veronica Balderas Iglesias has the full story.

00:19The Trump administration began deporting hundreds of migrants with criminal records last week

00:24who are in the United States illegally.

00:27Deporting undocumented migrants without criminal records isn't off the table, said Border

00:33Czar Tom Homan during an interview Sunday on ABC's This Week Show.

00:38Right now it's countering public safety threats, national security threats, that's a smaller

00:42population.

00:43So we're going to do this on a priority basis as President Trump's promise, but as that

00:46aperture opens, there will be more arrests nationwide.

00:49On Tuesday, restrictions were removed for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs

00:54and Border Protection agents to carry out immigration enforcement in sensitive places

01:00like churches, schools and hospitals.

01:03Homan said such arrests would be carried out on a case-by-case basis.

01:08ICE officers should have discretion to decide if a national security threat or a public

01:13safety threat is in one of these facilities, then there should be an option for them to

01:16make the arrest.

01:17The Trump administration's immigration warnings and approach were criticized by Democratic

01:22Senator Elissa Slotkin.

01:24I think that's more of a signal to try and keep people from coming to the border, trying

01:29to get in, and it's part of this transition that they're not quite into yet between campaigning

01:36and governing.

01:37The U.S. military has been tasked by President Donald Trump with aiding border security.

01:43U.S. military planes are already being used for deportations, but the military's role

01:49should remain in line with the Constitution, Senator Slotkin pointed out.

01:54According to our Constitution, you can go in supporting roles, logistics, driving, setting

02:00up facilities, setting up border locations, whatever.

02:03It's very different when you cross the line into law enforcement.

02:07Some 1,500 active duty military troops began arriving at the border with Mexico last week,

02:14and their numbers could go up in the coming days.

02:18And said Sunday, the troops' presence sends a, quote, strong signal to the world our border

02:25is closed.

02:26Veronica Valderas Iglesias, DOJ News, Washington.

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