Report: U.S. planning immigration raids in early January | PBS NewsHour

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The ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents detain a woman at Danny’s Family Car Wash on Aug. 17, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Homeland Security Department is planning nationwide raids aimed at deporting adults and children who have already been ordered removed by an immigration judge. Photo By Joshua Lott/Reuters

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department is planning nationwide raids aimed at deporting adults and children who have already been ordered removed by an immigration judge.
The Washington Post reported in Thursday’s editions that the operation from Immigration and Customs Enforcement would begin as soon as next month and would likely affect hundreds of immigrants who fled violence in Central America since the start of 2014.

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