President-elect Donald Trump’s team is making it clear that on Inauguration Day, Trump will sign an executive order that will mandate the re
When asked, “Will Providence Police assist ICE in the arrest and deportation?” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley office told GoLocal, “The Providence Police Department will not and should not be immigration officers. Providence remains committed to being a safe and welcoming city for everyone.”
Smiley’s office said the Providence Police will not provide information to ICE. “[The] city has not and will not proactively collaborate with ICE to provide this information.”
But how Smiley’s promise of a safe city functions with Trump’s policy is unknown.
Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a Fox News interview after the election that Trump’s win “gives him a mandate to govern as he campaigned, to deliver on the promises that he made, which include, on Day 1, launching the largest mass deportation operation of illegal immigrants that Kamala Harris has allowed into this country.”
Rhode Island should be the first State that President Trump tests his deportation policy, backed up by the almighty Department of Justice!
