President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is reconsidering plans for immigration raids in Chicago next week after details were leaked, Trump's “border czar” Tom Homan told the Washington Post in an interview on Saturday.

The size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect’s goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.

A U.S. official says immigration officers will target more than 300 people with histories of egregious, violent crimes next week after President-elect Donald Trump takes office

Federal immigration officers will target more than 300 people in the Chicago area with histories of violent crimes after President-elect Donald Trump takes office, an official said.

Trump's team is reportedly working with immigration authorities to launch a massive raid in Chicago on Tuesday

A day after President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, the US immigration authorities will begin conducting mass arrests of undocumented immigrants across the country that will last all week.

Raids to detain and deport illegal migrants in the US are expected to begin on the first day of Trump’s presidency. Operations could reportedly begin as early as Tuesday. This comes as Trump vowed to oversee the largest deportation programme in US history.

President-elect Donald Trump plans to initiate a large immigration raid in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, marking the first effort toward implementing mass deportations of illegal immigrants. The massive operation in the Windy City will involve between 100 and 200 United States Customs and Immigration Enforcement officers,