president donald trump said on saturday he will delay plans for a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants for two weeks so that he can negotiate with members of congress a move that was quickly applauded by democrats at the request of democrats i have delayed the illegal immigration removal process deportation for two weeks to see if the democrats and republicans can get together and work out a solution to the asylum and loophole problems at the southern border the president tweeted if not deportations start the trump administration had planned to deport more than 2000 undocumented immigrants in as many as 10 cities in an unprecedented show of force aimed at deterring illegal migration of families the removals would impact individuals who had previously received deportation orders but continued living in the united states more trump administration plans unprecedented roundup of 2000 family members in deportation raids house speaker nancy pelosi quickly took to twitter to welcome the decision mr president delay is welcome she tweeted time is needed for comprehensive immigration reform families belong together mr president delay is welcome time is needed for comprehensive immigration reform families belong together nancy pelosi speakerpelosi june 22 2019 a record number of migrant families have arrived at the southern border in recent months of the roughly 144000 migrants stopped by us authorities in may more than 105000 came as families the numbers represent the largest north american land migration trend in more than a decade a source told abc news that speaker nancy pelosi called the president friday night to ask him to call off the deportation raids the presidents tweet represented a change of course even from earlier in the day on saturday president donald trump awaits the arrival of canadian prime minister justin trudeau to the white house on june 20 2019 in washington alex brandonap more ice will begin removing millions of undocumented immigrants next week donald trump tweets prior to sending the tweet as the president departed for camp david he addressed a group of reporters and said that the deportations would start during the course of this next week maybe a little bit earlier than that and that everybody that came into the country illegally will be brought out of the country very legally these are people who came into the country illegally theyve been served theyve gone through a process a process of the courts and they have to be removed from the country trump said they will be removed from the country its having a very big effect on the border when news broke that the president was calling on deportation raids cities like los angeles baltimore and chicago immediately fired back saying they wouldnt cooperate with the raids and warned residents to make sure they had functional locks on their doors residents are not required to open their doors to officials from us immigration and customs enforcement unless they have a warrant signed by a judge more trump administration