在采访中美联社署理入境事务处及海关执法局局长于星期六早上发布说定于周日开始的家庭驱逐突袭将在本周末后继续进行。如果一些家庭因为合法居留而分居，而另一些家庭被驱逐出境，他说他们也可以选择离开这个国家“自愿”团聚。
“我们正试图增加一些额外的资源来处理大量的案件，这些案件都是加速审理的，”代理洲际交易所董事马修·阿尔本斯说。“但这次行动结束后，这些案件仍将是可行的，我们将在那里进行调查和追查。”
即将到来的突袭将针对美国九个城市的移民，包括纽约、洛杉矶、芝加哥、亚特兰大、迈阿密和休斯顿。
据报道，洲际交易所计划的突袭目标是美国九个城市的无证移民。约翰·摩亚/盖蒂
移民权利活动人士和律师批评了计划中的逮捕行动，并表示担心针对一名无证件移民的行动可能会顺便扫荡其他有证件或无证件的移民，否则他们不会成为移民归化局突袭的目标。
美国公民自由联盟(American Civil Liberties Union)的副法律总监汪诗诗在首次宣布全国移民突袭后写道，特朗普政府正试图“将恐惧打入我们社区的心脏”
她在推特上写道，“记录移民代理人的任何滥用行为”。“互相照顾。”
周日的行动可能会使那些陷入袭击中的具有混合移民身份的家庭四分五裂，在他们的家庭成员被驱逐出境时，该国的那些家庭被依法允许留下来。
当被问及一个家庭会发生什么事情时，例如，母亲被授权留在美国，但她家庭的其他成员要服从最终的驱逐令，阿尔本斯告诉美联社，这种分离是可以纠正的，但不能让这个家庭留在美国。
“如果母亲想自己和家人一起自愿返回，她将有机会这样做，”他说。
特朗普政府声称，其执法和驱逐行动旨在打击犯罪分子。在之前的声明中新闻周刊一名移民归化局发言人说，移民归化局优先考虑逮捕“对国家安全、公共安全和边境安全构成威胁的”移民
发言人说:“事实上，2018财年，90%被移民归化局执法和驱逐行动部门逮捕的外国人要么被刑事定罪，要么是移民归化局逃犯，要么在之前被驱逐后非法入境。”。“然而，所有违反移民法的人都可能遭到移民逮捕、拘留，如果最终裁定可被驱逐出境，则可能被驱逐出美国。”
此前的报告显示，政府打算针对约2000人，这可能导致约200人被捕。但是特朗普此前吹嘘他的政府计划逮捕数百万人。
出于对私营部门协助移民执法行动的担忧，连锁酒店万豪宣布，不允许洲际交易所使用酒店房间关押被拘留者。阿尔本斯承认，如果洲际交易所自己设施中关押家庭的空间用完了，它可能会开始把他们分开。
ACTING ICE DIRECTOR SAYS FAMILIES SEPARATED IN UPCOMING DEPORTATION RAIDS CAN 'VOLUNTARILY' REUNIFY BY LEAVING U.S.
In an interview with the Associated Press posted Saturday morning, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said that the family deportation raids slated to begin Sunday will continue on after this weekend. And if families are separated because some are here legally while others are deported, he said they could "voluntarily" reunify by also choosing to leave the country.
"We're trying to surge some additional resources to deal with this glut of cases that came out of the accelerated docket," Acting ICE Director Matthew Albence said. "But after this operation is over, these cases are still going to be viable cases that we'll be out there investigating and pursuing."
The upcoming raids will target immigrants subject to final orders of deportation across nine U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami and Houston.
Planned ICE raids are reportedly set to target undocumented immigrants across nine U.S. cities.JOHN MOORE/GETTY
Immigrants' rights activists and lawyers have criticized the planned arrests and expressed concerns that operations targeting an individual undocumented immigrant could incidentally sweep up other migrants, documented or not, who would not have otherwise been the target of an ICE raid.
Cecilia Wang, the deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote after the first announcement of national immigration raids that the Trump administration was trying "to strike fear into the heart of our communities."
"Document any abuses by immigration agents," she tweeted. "Look out for each other."
Families ensnared in the raids who have mixed immigration status may be torn apart by Sunday's operations, with those in the country legally allowed to remain while their family members are deported.
When asked what might happen to a family where, for example, the mother is authorized to be in the U.S. but the rest of her family are subject to final orders of removal, Albence told the AP that sort of separation could be rectified, but not with the family remaining in America.
"If the mother wants to return voluntarily on her own with the family, she'll have an opportunity to do so," he said.
The Trump administration has alleged that its enforcement and removal operations are designed to target criminals. In a prior statement to Newsweek, an ICE spokesperson said that the agency prioritizes the apprehension of immigrants "who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security."
"In fact, 90 percent of aliens arrested by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations component in FY2018 had either a criminal conviction(s), pending criminal charge(s), were an ICE fugitive, or illegally reentered the country after previously being removed," the spokesperson said. "However, all of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention and - if found removable by final order - removal from the United States."
Prior reporting indicated the administration intends to target around 2,000 people, which could result in about 200 arrests. But Trump has previously boasted about his administration's plans to arrest millions.
Amid concerns about private sector assistance to immigration enforcement operations, Marriott, the hotel chain, announced it would not allow ICE to use its hotel rooms to hold detainees. If ICE runs out of space in its own facilities to detain families together, it may begin to separate them, Albence acknowledged.
