Donald Trump confirmed that he had launched an operation to "hunt" illegal migrants

US President Donald Trump confirmed that this Sunday will begin a national operation against people living illegally in this country.

The raids, launched earlier this week by the press, have raised fears of defenders of immigrant rights.

The operation should target about two thousand people who did not comply with the final deportation ordersbut includes whole families.

Trump told a group of White House reporters that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would focus on immigrants wanted to be criminals.

"It's a huge operation, if we say it will start, nothing happens, it starts on Sunday and we are going to bring out thousands of undocumented people from here", Assured the head of government before embarking on a trip to Wisconsin and Ohio." I have the obligation to do so, if they enter illegally they are going, "he added.

Similarly, the president warned that the operation will also go against those who live in the country illegallybecause it is not fair to those who, for years, hope to become citizens by legal means.

The operation will focus on the cities of New York, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore and Denver, which are similar to those that have been conducted regularly since 2003, in which hundreds of migrants are usually detained and deported.

It was expected that there would also be raids in New Orleans, but it was confirmed that they would be temporarily suspended in this city because of the proximity of Tropical Storm Barry.

Trump had threatened, three weeks ago, to launch the same operation, but arrested him a day earlier to give the Democrats an "opportunity" to negotiate with him a change in the asylum system in the country. , which did not happen.