Ken Cuccinelli: Deportation raids ‘absolutely going to happen’

By Steven Nelson

Published July 10, 2019 3:35pm ET

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Ken Cuccinelli: Deportation raids ‘absolutely going to happen’ — USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli delivers his remarks during a naturalization ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, in New York, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. | (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

President Trump’s threatened deportation raids are “absolutely going to happen,” says senior Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli.

“There are approximately 1 million people in this with deportation orders,” the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services told reporters on the White House driveway. “Of course, that isn’t what ICE will go after in this, but that’s the pool of people that have been all the way through the process.”

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