"Redouble our efforts": Donald Trump announces new anti-immigration operations in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York

US President Donald Trump on Sunday, June 15, ordered new anti-migrant operations in key Democratic cities in preparation for "the largest deportation program in history."

"We must redouble our efforts to arrest and deport illegal aliens from America's largest cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where millions of illegal aliens live," he said on his Truth Social network. "These cities, and others, are the heart of Democratic power," he added.

Donald Trump has made deporting illegal immigrants a priority of his second term, after promising during his campaign to end a supposed "invasion" of foreign criminals. But his efforts to combat illegal immigration have gone far beyond this and have particularly targeted Latin American immigrants, who are essential to certain industries.

Repeated raids by federal immigration enforcement (ICE) agents in Los Angeles have sparked protests, sometimes punctuated by violence, in the second-largest city in the United States. The president responded by deploying 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines, an elite force, against the wishes of the California governor and mayor.

On Saturday, as Donald Trump presided over a major military parade in Washington, hundreds of thousands of opponents took to the streets under the slogan "No Kings" to denounce what they consider to be the president's dictatorial excesses.

In his lengthy rant on Social Truth on Sunday, the Republican president claimed that "every day, the brave men and women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from radical Democratic politicians."

But, he insisted, "nothing will prevent us from carrying out our mission (...) ICE agents are hereby directed to do everything possible to achieve the very important objective of carrying out the largest mass deportation program in history."

"The far-left Democrats have sick minds, hate our country, and actually want to destroy our inner cities—and they're succeeding!" the president continued.

“There’s something wrong with them,” he continued in his rant, listing a series of grievances, including accusations that Democrats “believe in open borders, transgenderism for everyone, and men playing women’s sports.”

He said he ordered ICE and other law enforcement agencies to "FOCUS on our crime-ridden and murderous inner cities."

The entire administration, he insisted, is ordered "to put all possible resources behind this effort, and to reverse the tide of mass-destructive migration that has transformed once-idyllic cities into scenes of Third World dystopia."

"You have my unwavering support. Now go get the job done!" he wrote to ICE and "patriots" in other administrations. "REAL Americans are cheering you on every day," Donald Trump said.