Trump’s ICA to Accumulate Hundreds of Detentions, Including Illegal Immigrants Convicted of Heinous Crimes
First on FoxImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants in the first days of the Trump administration, including those with criminal records for sexual assault, domestic violence, and drug and weapons offenses.
Data obtained by Fox News Digital shows that in the 33-hour period between January 21 and 9 a.m. January 22, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 460 aliens with histories of sexual assault, robbery, theft and aggravated crimes. Assault, drug and firearms offenses, arrests and resisting domestic violence.
Agents arrested nationals from various countries including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.
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Arrests have been made in states including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida and Maryland.
Meanwhile, ICE has released more than 420 detainers — requiring ICE to notify a citizen when he or she is released. The citizens were arrested for crimes such as murder, sexual assault, kidnapping, battery and robbery.
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The arrest includes the following
– Jesus Perez, a Mexican citizen, was arrested in Salt Lake City and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child.
– Honduran national Franklin Osorto-Cruz was charged with drunken driving. He was arrested in New York.
– Camaro Denver Haye, a Jamaican national, was arrested for “promotion of sexual activity with a child under 17 years of age and exposure to sexual intercourse with a child under 16 years of age: possession/exposure”.
– Jesus Baltazar Mendoza, a Mexican citizen, was charged with 2nd degree child abuse. Arrested in St. Paul.
– Colombian national Andres Orjula Parra arrested in San Francisco. Having sex with a foreign object on an unknown victim is a conviction.
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– Six illegal immigrants from Miami, Guatemala, with criminal records for battery, child abuse, fraud, resisting arrest, DWI, kidnapping and vandalism.
Meanwhile, Fox News’ Bill Melugin was on the ground in Boston. Where agents Several MS-13 gang members, Interpol Red Notices, and murder and rape suspects have been arrested.
The arrests come as the Trump administration moves quickly to fulfill a promise to launch a historic mass deportation campaign that it says will focus primarily — but not exclusively — on public safety concerns.
This week, the administration took several steps to do just that, including President Trump’s executive orders and actions by his cabinet agencies.
Fox News reported Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security removed restrictions on expedited removal powers, a day after rescinding a Biden-era memo that allowed ICE to conduct enforcement operations.
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“Teams are out there starting today,” Homan said on “USA News” on Tuesday. We have directed them to prioritize the public safety concerns we are interested in. We are working on the target list.
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“Walking out of the gate threatens the safety of the public, those who are in the country illegally, convicted of serious crimes, are under arrest,” he said. “But let me be clear. It’s not just public safety threats that get arrested, because in sanctuary cities we’re not allowed to put that public safety threat in jail. We have to go to the neighborhood and find him.”
Fox News’ Sophia Compton contributed to this report.