Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested greater than 7,400 individuals in 9 days throughout a number of states amid its aggressive crackdown on unlawful immigration for the reason that new Trump administration got here into workplace.
ICE officers have been seen finishing up raids of houses, work websites, and different institutions, whereas deportations have additionally ramped up, with the Trump administration additionally vowing to ship essentially the most violent migrants to Guantánamo Bay.
In response to a compilation of day by day totals of arrests, as of Jan. 31, ICE has to this point arrested 7,412 individuals who the company says are within the nation illegally.
The company says that almost 6,000 ICE detainers have been positioned on people.
ICE has posted 9 day by day arrest totals to X and has additionally posted particulars from numerous raids throughout sanctuary cities like New York Metropolis, Chicago and Boston the place they’ve scooped up illegals accused of intercourse crimes towards minors, rapes, weapons and drug offenses, whereas violent gang members belonging to Tren de Aragua and MS-13 have additionally been taken off the streets.
Border czar Tom Homan has stated the administration is at the moment solely concentrating on violent unlawful aliens whereas Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem, who oversees ICE, says federal immigration authorities are arresting the “worst of the worst” in raids.
She says the streets at the moment are safer consequently.
Lots of the ICE raids have been carried out alongside different federal businesses such because the Drug Enforcement Company (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Noem joined an immigration enforcement raid in New York Metropolis Tuesday morning through which officers picked up Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 26, an alleged ringleader of the violent Tren de Aragua gang. Zambrano-Pacheco is similar man caught on digicam in a viral video displaying closely armed males kicking down an residence door at an residence complicated in Aurora, Colorado, final summer season.
Luis Adolfo Guerra Perez, 19, a Guatemalan citizen and MS-13 gang member, was arrested by ICE in Massachusetts final week.
He was going through state gun prices and had beforehand been ordered to be deported earlier than he was launched by a Boston courtroom.
ICE has printed particulars of greater than 60 instances whereas the White Home X account has posted particulars of not less than 20 others.
Nonetheless, for the overwhelming majority of the 7,412, particulars on their prison histories usually are not but obtainable.
The arrests complete come as Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth confirmed that the “worst of the worst” prison migrants might be quickly housed at Guantánamo Bay detention camp and that “all choices might be on the desk” for navy motion towards the cartels.
Hegseth made the announcement in an interview with “Fox and Mates” on Friday and it got here on the heels of an announcement made by President Donald Trump on Wednesday that he might be instructing the Pentagon to arrange Guantánamo Bay to detain 30,000 “prison unlawful aliens.”
“At present I’m additionally signing an govt order to instruct the Departments of Protection and Homeland Safety to start making ready the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantánamo Bay,” Trump stated. “Most individuals don’t even find out about it.”
It was later discovered that Trump signed a presidential memorandum, not an govt order, on the matter.
Information of the arrests has been usually well-received by locals residing in these areas.
Ramses Frías, a neighborhood Queens activist who’s voiced issues over a crime disaster gripping his neighborhood, which is partially represented by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., stated the raids have additionally been warmly obtained by the group.
“Many residents, from immigrants to residents, welcome ICE coming in and taking the criminals out of those communities,” Frías, a metropolis council candidate, informed Fox Information Digital. “They welcome regulation and order and need protected streets.”
Nonetheless, not everybody agreed with the raids and Mayor Brandon Johnson just lately “reaffirmed” his dedication to maintain Chicago a sanctuary metropolis, as did Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
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