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.Â
ICE officers have been seen finishing up raids of properties, 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.
Based on a compilation of every day totals of arrests, as of Jan. 31, ICE has thus far arrested 7,412 individuals who the company says are within the nation illegally. The company says that just about 6,000 ICE detainers have been positioned on people.
NYC RESIDENTS PRAISE ICE RAIDS AFTER VIOLENT GANG MEMBER CAPTURED
ICE migrant raids New York Metropolis final week noticed a Tren de Aragua gang member arrested. (Drug Enforcement Administration New York and ICE Enforcement and Elimination Operations)
ICE has posted 9 every 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 in opposition to 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.Â
Border czar Tom Homan has stated the administration is presently 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 are actually safer consequently.
Lots of the ICE raids have been carried out alongside different federal companies 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 by which officers picked up Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 26, an alleged ringleader of the violent Tren de Aragua gang. Zambrano-Pacheco is identical man caught on digital camera in a viral video exhibiting closely armed males kicking down an condo door at an condo 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 fees and had beforehand been ordered to be deported earlier than he was launched by a Boston court docket.
ICE has printed particulars of greater than 60 circumstances whereas the White Home X account has posted particulars of at the least 20 others.
Homeland Safety Kristi Noem joins an ICE raid in New York Metropolis on Tuesday. Noem stated communities will probably be safer due to focused raids that go after legal unlawful immigrants. (Division of Homeland Safety)
NOEM SAYS ‘WORST OF THE WORST’ ARRESTED IN NYC RAID TARGETING CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
Nonetheless, for the overwhelming majority of the 7,412, particulars on their legal histories should not but out there.
The arrests whole come as Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth confirmed that the “worst of the worst” legal migrants will probably be quickly housed at Guantánamo Bay detention camp and that “all choices will probably be on the desk” for army motion in opposition to the cartels.
Hegseth made the announcement in an interview with “Fox and Associates” on Friday and it got here on the heels of an announcement made by President Donald Trump on Wednesday that he will probably be instructing the Pentagon to arrange Guantánamo Bay to detain 30,000 “legal unlawful aliens.”
“At present I am 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 do not even find out about it.”
It was later discovered that Trump signed a presidential memorandum, not an govt order, on the matter.
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Information of the arrests has been usually well-received by locals residing in these areas.Â
Ramses FrÃas, a neighborhood Queens activist who’s voiced considerations 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 neighborhood.
Luis Adolfo Guerra-Perez, 19, was arrested by immigration brokers final week. He had pending drug and gun fees and had been ordered deported earlier than he was taken into federal custody. (ICE)
“Many residents, from immigrants to residents, welcome ICE coming in and taking the criminals out of those communities,” FrÃas, a metropolis council candidate, instructed Fox Information Digital. “They welcome regulation and order and need secure streets.”
Nonetheless, not everybody agreed with the raids and Mayor Brandon Johnson not too long ago “reaffirmed” his dedication to maintain Chicago a sanctuary metropolis, as did Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.Â
