ICE moves quickly to arrest illegal immigrants – Washington Examiner
The article reports on the recent actions taken by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation initiative.In a series of operations across major U.S. cities, including Boston, ICE officers have arrested over 460 undocumented immigrants, many of whom have criminal or gang affiliations. The arrests span a wide geographical area from California to New York and from Florida to Minnesota. The individuals detained come from various countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, and several Central and South American nations. The report highlights the significant scale of these enforcement actions happening shortly after Trump assumed office.
ICE officers blitz US, arresting 460 immigrants under Trump’s mass deportation operation: Report
Federal law enforcement officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have begun carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation, making arrests this week in Boston and other major U.S. cities.
ICE has arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants, primarily with criminal or gang-related backgrounds, since Trump took office Monday, a staggering number. Arrests have occurred from coast to coast, spanning from California to New York and Florida to Minnesota.
Arrestees are citizens of Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal, and Venezuela, according to Fox News.
In and around Boston, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations officers made eight individual arrests this week of illegal immigrants, including MS-13 gang members, murder and rape suspects, a Haitian gang member, and at least one person on the global Interpol wanted list, according to Fox News, which embedded with ICE in Boston on an unspecified day this week.
“Today was a good day. Today, we took several significant public safety threats out of our communities,” said Patricia Hyde, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations’ acting field office director in Boston. “Unfortunately, a lot were released by sanctuary policies. But we’re here to tell the Commonwealth and the rest of the country that we’re going to find them, whether they’re released or not.”
Trump unleashed ICE to arrest illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds, as well as immigrants already ordered by a judge to be removed from the country, as part of the Republican Party’s 2024 agenda, promising the “largest-ever deportation” in a second term.
Under previous Democratic White House administrations, ICE had its authorities narrowed, including under former President Joe Biden, to focus on arresting the worst of the worst criminals or arresting those with less serious or no criminal records.
White House border czar Tom Homan told the Washington Examiner in December that “collateral arrests,” or people who were not the target of arrests but encountered during them, will also be arrested and could be deported.
One such collateral arrest in Boston included an MS-13 gang member who was encountered when ICE officers showed up at a location to arrest someone else but discovered the other individual, and a background check revealed the second person’s gang affiliation. The gang member was arrested locally, and despite ICE’s asking the local jail to detain him until he could be transferred to ICE custody, it released him.
ICE is not carrying out raids, as some Democrats and immigrant rights groups have claimed. ICE is only arresting dozens to hundreds of people at a time when it is carrying out a warrant at a large job site that has been warned against employing illegal immigrants.
In the case of the arrests in Boston and other cities nationwide, illegal immigrants were arrested one by one, making the 460 figure even more impressive.
One such man arrested in Boston, who Fox News identified as a “volatile Haitian gang member with 18 convictions in recent years, told our cameras that he ‘ain’t going back to Haiti’ and ‘f— Trump, Biden forever!’”
ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment.
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