This effort comes weeks after President Donald Trump tweeted the ICE plans to conduct the raids, and then delayed the operation after the publication of additional details.
The New York Times has for the first time announced its searches, claiming that they should take place in at least 10 cities, will run "over several days" and include "collateral" deportations during which "the authorities could hold immigrants who were on the scene, even if they are not the target of the raids ".
Matthew Bourke, a spokesman for ICE, said the ICE would not comment on the operational details. "The ICE gives priority to the arrest and expulsion of illegal aliens who pose a threat to national security, public security and border security."
On Wednesday, Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the ICE raids will "absolutely unfold" after a deadline from the president to see if the Congress could find a legislative solution with regard to immigration.
"They're definitely going to come in. There are about a million people in this country with removal orders, and of course, that's not what ICE will pursue, but it's the pool of people who have gone through the process in due form, "he told reporters at the White House.
ICE had planned to arrest and deport families whose removals were ordered by the court in ten cities at the end of June, according to a senior immigration official. On the eve of the start of the raids, Trump delayed them by two weeks, saying he would "wait to see if Democrats and Republicans could come together and find a solution to the problems of asylum and corruption. escape from the southern border ".
A week later, at the G20 summit, Trump said his administration was still planning to launch a series of ICE raids sometime after the end of that two-week period, which would be after the Fourth of July leave.
Betsy Klein, Pamela Brown and Joe Johns from CNN contributed to this report.
