In the initial days of the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out over 460 arrests of illegal immigrants, many of whom had criminal backgrounds that included serious offenses such as assault, domestic violence, and drug and weapons crimes.
According to information obtained by Fox News Digital, between midnight on January 21 and 9 a.m. on January 22, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) made these arrests during a 33-hour period. The individuals apprehended had criminal records that included assault, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, drugs and weapons offenses, resisting arrest, and domestic violence.
The arrested individuals came from various countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal, and Venezuela.
The arrests took place across multiple states in the U.S., including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida, and Maryland.
At the same time, ICE issued more than 420 detainers, requesting to be notified when certain individuals were released from custody. These individuals were arrested for crimes such as homicide, assault, kidnapping, battery, and robbery.
Some of the arrests included:
– A Mexican national, Jesus Perez, apprehended in Salt Lake City, charged with aggravated abuse of a child.
– A Honduran national, Franklin Osorto-Cruz, convicted of driving while intoxicated, arrested in New York.
– A Jamaican national, Kamaro Denver Haye, arrested for promoting assault of a child under 17 and a child under 16, and more.
– A Mexican national, Jesus Baltazar Mendoza, convicted of second-degree assault on a child, arrested in St. Paul.
– A Colombian national, Andres Orjuela Parra, arrested in San Francisco for assault on an unaware victim.
– Six illegal immigrants from Guatemala arrested in Miami, with criminal histories that included battery, child abuse, fraud, resisting arrest, driving while intoxicated, trespassing, and vandalism.
Meanwhile, Fox News’ Bill Melugin reported from Boston, where agents arrested several members of the MS-13 gang, along with individuals who had Interpol Red Notices, and suspects involved in murder and assault cases.
These arrests are part of the Trump administration’s swift efforts to launch an extensive mass deportation operation, which has been described as focusing primarily, though not exclusively, on those posing public safety risks.
This week, the administration took several steps to implement this operation, including a series of executive orders by President Trump and subsequent actions by his cabinet members.
Fox News reported on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security had removed restrictions on expedited removal powers, just a day after rescinding a memo from the Biden administration that had limited the areas where ICE could carry out enforcement operations.
“Teams are out there as of today,” Homan said during an appearance on “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday. “We gave them direction to prioritize public safety threats that we’re looking for. We’ve been working up the target list.”
“Right out of the gate it’s public safety threats, those who are in the country illegally that have been convicted, arrested for serious crimes,” he continued. “But let me be clear. There’s not only public safety threats that will be arrested, because in sanctuary cities, we’re not allowed to get that public safety threat in the jail, which means we got to go to the neighborhood and find him.”
{Matzav.com}