Federal law enforcement officials from U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have begun carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation activity, making detention this week in Boston and other major U. S. places.
ICE has arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants, mainly with legal or gang-related origins, since Trump took office Monday, a staggering amount. Detention have occurred from coast to coast, spanning from California to New York and Florida to Minnesota.
Arrestees are members 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 specific arrests this month of illegal immigrants, including MS-13 crew members, murder and assault suspects, a Dominican crew member, and at least one person on the international Interpol wanted list, according to Fox News, which embedded with ICE in Boston on an unknown day this week.
“Today was a great 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. “ However, a lot were released by sanctuary policies. But we’re ok to tell the Commonwealth and the rest of the land that we’re going to find them, whether they’re released or not. ”
Trump unleashed ICE to arrest illegal immigrants with legal background, as well as newcomers now ordered by a judge to be removed from the country, as part of the Republican Party’s 2024 plan, promising the “largest-ever imprisonment ” in a second word.
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.
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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.
