WEST PALM BEACH, United States: Aggressive US immigration raids which have sparked protests and allegations of rights violations have not gone far enough, President Donald Trump said in a CBS interview released Sunday.<\/p>\n
Trump was interviewed Friday by CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d program, his first sit-down with the broadcaster since it agreed to a $16 million settlement with him.<\/p>\n
The Republican president had sued the Paramount-owned organization over a 2024 pre-election interview with his Democratic opponent, former vice president Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n
Asked by interviewer Norah O\u2019Donnell if raids conducted by his Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have \u201cgone too far,\u201d the 79-year-old president replied: \u201cI think they haven\u2019t gone far enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
He claimed \u201cliberal judges\u201d appointed by Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden had \u201cheld back\u201d immigration operations, according to the interview extract posted on X.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Donnell noted documented instances of ICE agents tackling suspected immigrants, deploying tear gas in neighborhoods and smashing open car windows.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re okay with those tactics?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, because you have to get the people out,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has pushed for a massive wave of deportations, a hallmark of his 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n
Protests sparked by increased ICE raids have caused unrest across the country, particularly in Democratic-led cities where Trump\u2019s administration has launched \u201csurges\u201d of agents.<\/p>\n
Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops to back up the agents and protect immigration facilities in the cities, sparking lawsuits from local officials claiming he has overstepped his authority.<\/p>\n
His administration has deployed troops in Los Angeles, while similar efforts in Portland and Chicago have been temporarily blocked by federal courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WEST PALM BEACH, United States: Aggressive US immigration raids which have sparked protests and allegations of rights violations have not gone far enough, President Donald Trump said in a CBS interview released Sunday. Trump was interviewed Friday by CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d program, his first sit-down with the broadcaster since it agreed to a $16 million …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89030,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89013\/revisions\/89030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}