Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, told Newsmax on Tuesday that worksite operations are “very much a cornerstone” of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations.

“Oftentimes, these worksites are hubs for drug trafficking, for human trafficking, for labor trafficking,” McLaughlin said on “National Report.” “Actually, there was just an operation in Los Angeles that picked up some drug traffickers at a worksite, so, these are places where we do find the worst of the worst, these criminal illegal aliens that the president has a mandate to get off of American streets.”

She added, “So we will continue to do that. We’ll continue to primarily target these violent criminal aliens. But criminal aliens in this country should know that there is no safe haven for them. There is no safe harbor, whether it be a church or a courthouse or a worksite. We will come for you; we will arrest you; you will be deported.”

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