United States President, Donald
Trump, has approved the massive arrest of Nigerians and citizens of other
countries who are illegally living in the country, beginning from Sunday, July
14, 2019.
The raid will reportedly take
place in at least 10 major cities of the U.S.
The New York Times on Thursday
quoted sources in the U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as saying the
agency will begin a “nationwide raid and arrest of thousands of immigrant
family members who are undocumented in the country.”
The DHS officials told the
newspaper that the raid will include collateral deportations.
The development is coming barely
two months after the US government declared that an estimated 29,723 Nigerians
who entered the U.S with either non-immigrant tourism or business (B1/B2) visas
between October 1, 2017, and September 30, 2018, overstayed in the country.
According to the ‘The fiscal Year
2018 Entry/Exit Overstay Report’ released by the Trump government, this set of
Nigerian immigrants refused to leave the U.S after their visas expired.
The report stated that 195,785
Nigerians who were given visas into the U.S were expected to leave “within the
above window.”
Illegal immigrants who restrict
their movements may escape the raid as the operatives are legally not allowed
to forcibly enter a home.
Those specifically being
targeted, according to the report, are those whose deportation have been
ordered as a result of their failure to appear in court or who have continued
to stay in the country illegally.
President Trump’s directive on
the raid is said to be aimed at curbing the rising illegal immigrant overstay
in the U.S.
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