ICE says claims its officers target churches and hospitals are ‘false’

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United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not targeting illegal immigrants inside a medical facility or religious facility, despite concerns that the Trump administration would do so after the rollback of a Biden-era policy earlier this year.

While recent reports have suggested that ICE and other federal law enforcement have gone into hospitals and churches to find and arrest immigrants who are illegally residing in the U.S., the agency said that although employees are allowed to make arrests at those sites, they have not done so.

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