美国移民和海关执法局代理局长马修·阿尔本斯(Matthew Albence)表示，他不“知道”该局目前针对被法院下令驱逐的家庭的行动将于何时结束，也不知道最终将针对多少人。
被问到新闻周刊在周二的电话新闻发布会上，阿尔本斯说，他不能说移民归化局的行动何时结束，这让全国各地的移民家庭对未来几个月他们是否会成为目标一无所知。
“我们不知道逮捕了多少人...我们不知道外面有多少目标，”阿尔本斯继续说道。“我们无法告诉你最终会有多少人因此被捕。”
阿尔本斯说，到目前为止，洲际交易所已经逮捕了35名移民，作为针对家庭行动的一部分纽约时报第一次报道。
移民归化局代理局长说，他“不知道”有任何家庭为了短期拘留而不得不分开。
当被记者问及为什么袭击看起来没有达到2000个家庭的目标时，冰局长警告说，“这只是行动的开始。”
“我们有更多的信息可以利用，”他说。"这只是这个时间框架的一个小快照."
在简报中，阿尔本斯试图澄清ICE最近实施的逮捕不是“突袭”，而是“有针对性的执法行动”，他说，他知道许多移民社区正在参加“了解你的权利”培训。
“了解你的权利”提高认识倡议旨在确保可能成为移民和归化局目标的移民知道，他们不需要向移民和归化局特工人员敞开大门，包括车门，即使特工人员出示的“行政”搜查令与司法搜查令没有同样的权力。
“你可以在这个国家的任何地方打开电视台，而这不是主要话题之一，”他说。
然而，他说，“我们很有耐心，并将继续追查这些案件。”
唐纳德·特朗普总统宣布大规模逮捕即将到来后，美国许多社区一直在等待行动的进行。
这位美国领导人后来推迟了袭击，但随后宣布，袭击将在上周发射前不久开始。
当被问及特朗普早些时候宣布突袭是否对洲际交易所成功实施逮捕的能力产生负面影响时，阿尔本斯说他不这么认为。
那些接受过“了解你的权利”培训并知道当他们遇到ICE时该怎么做的人“可能已经逃脱了短期拘留，”他说，“但我们会继续留在那里。”
洲际交易所代理董事马修·阿尔本斯(Matthew Albence)于2018年7月31日在华盛顿特区国会山哈特参议院办公楼的参议院司法委员会作证，阿尔本斯表示，他不知道洲际交易所最新的定向执法行动何时结束，或者有多少人将“最终”成为目标。
ICE ACTING DIRECTOR SAYS HE DOES NOT KNOW WHEN ICE 'RAIDS' WILL END—OR HOW MANY WILL 'ULTIMATELY' BE ARRESTED
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Matthew Albence has said he does not "know" when his agency's current operation targeting families with court-ordered removals will end or how many people it will ultimately target.
Asked by Newsweek during a telephone press briefing on Tuesday, Albence said he could not say when ICE's operation might conclude, leaving immigrant families across the country in the dark about whether they might be targeted over the coming months.
"We don't know how many arrests... We don't know how many targets are out there," Albence continued. "We can't tell you how many arrests are going to ultimately result from this."
So far, Albence said ICE has arrested 35 migrants as part of the operation targeting families, with the raids having been expected to target as many as 2,000 families overall, as The New York Times had first reported.
The ICE acting director said he was "not aware" of any families having to be separated for short-term detention purposes.
Asked by a reporter why the raids appeared to have fallen so short of the 2,000-family target, the ICE director warned that "this is just the beginning of the operation."
"We have a whole lot more information on which to work from," he said. "This is just a small snapshot of this time frame."
During the briefing, Albence, who sought to clarify that the recent arrests carried out by ICE were not "raids," but "targeted enforcement operations," said that he was aware that many immigrant communities were participating in "know your rights" training.
"Know your rights" awareness initiatives seek to ensure that immigrants who could be targeted by ICE know that that they are not required to open their doors, including the doors of their vehicles, to ICE agents, even when agents present an "administrative" warrant, which does not hold the same powers as a judicial warrant.
"You can turn on TV stations anywhere in this country without this being one of the lead topics," he said.
However, he said, "we're patient and we will continue to pursue these cases."
Many communities across the United States had been waiting for the operations to take place after President Donald Trump announced that mass arrests would be imminent.
The U.S. leader later postponed the raids, but then announced that they would soon begin shortly before they were launched last week.
Asked whether Trump announcing the raids early on had a negative impact on ICE's ability to successfully carry out arrests, Albence said he did not believe so.
Those who have received "know your rights" training and know what to do when they encounter ICE "may have escaped detention for a short time," he said, "but we're going to continue to be out there."
ICE Acting Director Matthew Albence testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill July 31, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Albence has said he does not know when ICE's latest targeted enforcement operation will end or how many people will "ultimately" be targeted.
