
DAILY MAIL ONLINE | Published January 27, 2025
Thousands of violent criminals are being dragged from their homes and loaded onto deportation flights as Donald Trump ramps up his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Immigration officials arrested nearly 1,000 illegal migrants on Sunday alone – capping off a week of nationwide raids that removed convicted drug traffickers, murderers, child rapists, ISIS terrorists and more from city streets.
The White House, hailing federal agents ‘working tirelessly to protect our communities’, highlighted what it described as ‘some of the worst’ migrants to be rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the weekend.
A Honduran national found with cocaine, fentanyl, and a firearm was arrested following a sting in Washington state, while a Jordanian national with suspected ties to the Islamic State was detained in Buffalo, New York.
ICE arrested a Mexican national with an active INTERPOL Red Notice who was wanted for murder in Los Angeles, as well as a gangster from El Salvador who was wanted for aggravated homicide.
At least two convicted child rapists were taken into custody over the weekend. Federal agents also detained dozens of members of the violent Venezuelan crime gang Tren de Aragua (TdA).
The Trump Administration has quickly moved to ramp up deportations and arrest illegal migrants who pose ‘public safety threats ‘, specifically targeting sanctuary cities – which bar cooperation between city police and immigration agents.
Trump has been unhappy with the number of arrests so far and has directed federal immigration officials to meet higher detention quotas. He has ordered ICE to raise the arrest numbers from a few hundred a day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
ICE reported making a total of 593 arrests on Friday and 286 arrests on Saturday. In the 2024 federal fiscal year, it averaged around 310 per day, according to agency data.

Edgar De La Cruz-Manzo, a convicted child rapist, was arrested by ICE Seattle on Jan. 25, 2025

A Jordanian national with suspected ties to ISIS was arrested by ICE Buffalo on January 24, 2025

ICE Los Angeles arrested two migrants with active INTERPOL Red Notices on January 24, 2025, including an MS-13 gang member from El Salvador wanted for aggravated homicide

A Mexican national wanted for murder with an active INTERPOL Red Notice was arrested by ICE Los Angeles on January 24, 2025

Kevin Adith Torres-Velasquez, a Honduran national found with cocaine, fentanyl, and a firearm was arrested by ICE Seattle on Jan. 24, 2025

Convicted sex offender and Ethiopian national Yared Geremew Mekonnen was arrested in New Orleans on January 24, 2025
Top Trump administration officials, including border czar Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, made 956 arrests on Sunday alone in a series of nationwide raids aimed at capturing ‘potentially dangerous criminal aliens‘.
ICE detained nearly 50 people in Colorado in an operation that targeted TdA drug trafficking. Agents seized drugs including cocaine, multiple handguns and cash.
Authorities from six federal agencies raided churches and schools in Chicago, a sanctuary city that Homan views as the ‘ground zero’ of the deportation push.
Agents detained several known TdA gang members, including Edgar Rivas-Rodriguez, who was walking the streets of Chicago despite having past convictions for possession of methamphetamine and leaving the scene of an accident-causing injury.
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SOURCE: www.dailymail.co.uk
RELATED: Trump Returns Law and Order to the Border with ‘Catch and Return’ Policies
BREITBART | Published January 27, 2025
According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol is applying a legal process known as Expedited Removal on a broad scale along the southwest border. The agency is now returning migrants to Mexico soon after apprehension. The source told Breitbart Texas, “’Catch and Release’ is over, it’s ‘Catch and Return now.’”
According to the source, within the Tucson Sector of the Border Patrol, where migrants from hundreds of countries flooded the Organ Pipe National Monument area daily and were quickly released by the Biden administration, the source says migrants are now processed for Expedited Removal and sent back into Mexico or their home country immediately.
According to the source, the Trump administration has instructed agents to apply a firmer consequence if the migrant returns using federal criminal statutes that apply to migrants who return to the United States after a formal removal. The limitations of using Expedited Removal authority were previously restricted to migrants within 100 miles of the southern border and 14 days of illegal entry.
The source says the instructions to Border Patrol agents on the law’s application now allow for Expedited Removal anywhere a migrant is found within the United States within two years of entry. Instructions were disseminated to all Border Patrol stations to cease the release of any migrant into the United States based on recognizance except under exigent circumstances and only when approved at the agency’s highest level in Washington, D.C.
The source told Breitbart Texas that the Mexican government has recently been accepting the return of nationals from other countries, including Chinese nationals. “We expected changes to come quickly, but the pace is quicker than we expected in a number of policy areas,” the source emphasized.
President Trump’s newly sworn Department of Homeland Secretary, Kristi Noem, openly signaled the quick change to immigration enforcement policy. Noem promised to end the Biden Administration’s migrant parole programs, which have allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to enter the country at multiple land border ports of entry and international airports across the country.
The source tells Breitbart Texas those previously granted parole to hundreds of thousands of migrants under the two programs were loosely vetted, and many were released into the United States without any formal asylum interviews taking place. “Without a credible fear interview to determine even the most remote chance of being a legitimate asylee, these folks were allowed into the country. The new policies announced this week allow us to take a closer look at them and to take those determined to be out of status back into custody,” the source added.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the CHNV parole program was revealed to have imported applicants from wealthy nations rather than from their home countries. According to House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN), DHS documents obtained by the Centers for Immigration Studies in June 2024 showed many of the inadmissible migrants under the CHNV program were admitted from Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Hong Kong, Lt. Lucia, Sweden, and other wealthy nations.
The source told Breitbart Texas that changes have also been received to undo restrictive policies implemented by the Biden administration regarding vehicle pursuits and use of force that will allow agents to operate more efficiently while patrolling the border — something the source says has been lacking for too long.
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SOURCE: www.breitbart.com
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