TOM LLAMAS: We now turn to those new confrontations over the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, and the raid at a restaurant sparking backlash. We'll show you that video in a moment. Plus, our new reporting tonight, the top Trump aide who wants ICE agents to start arresting 3,000 undocumented immigrants a day. Liz Kreutz has the story.
PROTESTERS: Shame, shame, shame, shame!
LIZ KREUTZ: Tonight, viral video showing the chaos. Protesters confronting ICE agents after a surprise raid on a popular Italian restaurant in San Diego. Agents setting off what appear to be flash bang grenades to disperse crowds around their vehicle. This witness asked not to be identified, fearing retribution.
WITNESS: This isn't freedom, this is fascism.
KREUTZ: DHS saying the devices allowed the agents to leave “as safely as possible”, and that officers were executing search warrants for violations of hiring and harboring illegal aliens, arresting four subjects illegally in the U.S. It comes as NBC News has learned top Trump aide Stephen Miller held a meeting screaming at ICE officials to arrest more undocumented immigrants, according to two sources who spoke with attendees. Miller setting a new quota of 3,000 arrests per day, to include more than migrants with criminal records. President Trump says he's keeping his campaign pledge to reverse Biden’s border policies.
DONALD TRUMP: They were pouring into our country by the millions. (VIDEO SWIPE) But we’re moving them out…
KREUTZ: In Massachusetts, ICE officials announcing the arrest of nearly 1,500 undocumented immigrants last month, including some convicted of murder and child rape.
LEAH FOLEY: These are not immigrants. They are criminals.
KREUTZ: But there were protests after an 18-year-old high school junior was arrested on his way to volleyball practice. DHS said they never intended to apprehend him, but discovered he was in the U.S. illegally, while looking for his father.
And here in San Diego, the community is rallying behind this restaurant, with the owner calling the raid nothing short of traumatic. Tom.
LLAMAS: Okay, Liz Kreutz for us. Liz, thank you.
