ICE arrested 308 illegal migrants on Trump's first day in office, border czar Tom Homan says
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Via: vic-eldred • 2 weeks ago • 21 commentsBy: Jennie Taer (New York Post)
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The ICEman cometh.
Federal officers swept into sanctuary cities on President Trump's first full day in office Tuesday — nabbing more than 300 illegal migrant criminals — including an attempted murderer and a child molester — to hold them for deportation, The Post has learned.
The coast-to-coast dragnet — a multi-agency effort led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — picked up felons in and around Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington, DC, and Miami, a senior Trump administration official said.
In Philadelphia, ICE nabbed Kodir Mazhidov, a 22-year-old Tajik citizen, who was detained after violating the terms of his release from the immigration agency's custody. Obtained by the NY Post
It was just the start of what border czar Tom Homan has promised will be a renewed effort to boot the 700,000 illegal migrants who have committed crimes from the US — and sanctuary cities will not be spared.
"ICE is doing their job," Homan told Fox News on Wednesday.
Homan has said that ICE officers have compiled a "target sheet" of the illegal migrants with criminal records who they're looking to arrest and deport.
"So, they're out there right now looking for the most serious public safety threats and throughout the country, we're putting them back to work," Homan said of ICE.
Trump has promised a roundup of illegal immigrants in the US of historic proportions. Under President Biden's open borders policies, some 8 million people entered the US illegally — an influx that rivals the days of Ellis Island.
Sex offender Edward Marlon Rauda-Aldnada, 56, of El Salvador, was arrested in Silver Spring, Maryland outside Baltimore.
ERO busted Miguel Andres-Mateo, 20, from Guatemala, in Cornelia, Georgia, outside Atlanta. Andres-Mateo had previously been convicted for driving under the influence, and was previously ordered removed from the US in 2014 by an immigration judge. Obtained by the NY Post
In Boston, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported that ICE officers arrested at least 8 migrants — including a Haitian gang member with 18 arrests who shouted "f**k Trump, Biden forever!" as he was hauled away.
ICE also nabbed one illegal migrant who wasn't originally a target, but happened to be with MS-13 gang member when the feds showed up.
A White House official gave The Post details of some of the other migrants taken into ICE custody on Tuesday.
Sex offender Edward Marlon Rauda-Aldnada, 56, of El Salvador, was arrested in Silver Spring, Maryland, just north of Washington, DC.
Jose Barco-Chirino, a Venezuelan national, was taken into custody at Colorado State Prison in Canon City, Colo., where he was serving time after being convicted of attempted murder, extreme indifference and felony menacing with a real or simulated weapon.
He will remain in ICE custody until an immigration judge can rule on deportation proceedings.
Border czar Tom Homan announced the ICE arrests. NewsNation
ERO busted Miguel Andres-Mateo, 20, from Guatemala, in Cornelia, Georgia, outside Atlanta. Andres-Mateo had previously been convicted for driving under the influence and was previously ordered removed from the US in 2014 by an immigration judge. He, too, will remain in ICE custody pending removal from the country.
In Philadelphia, ICE nabbed Kodir Mazhidov, a 22-year-old Tajik national, who was detained after violating the terms of his release from the immigration agency's custody. On Dec. 29, Philly cops arrested Mazhidov for crimes including reckless endangering another person, fleeing or attempting to elude an officer and reckless driving.
Authorities in Seattle arrested Mexican national Victorino Gaytan-Hernandez, who was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor. He was in the country illegally and will be held in ICE custody until his deportation.
Migrants walk back into Mexico after being deported at El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. AP
In Miami, ICE arrested six illegal aliens from Guatemala who were living in Martin County, Fla., who had lengthy rap sheets including battery, child abuse, fraud, resisting arrest, DWI, trespassing and vandalism. They were detained as threats to public safety and for violating the terms of their release.
In an earlier interview with The Post, border czar Homan emphasized that even without the help of sanctuary city and state leaders, the feds would still "wait 'til they get out of jail, then we'll go out into the neighborhoods and get them."
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is taking measures to seal off the southern border from illegal crossings.
Border Patrol officers have been barred from releasing illegal migrants into the country, forcing them to hold and deport border crossers, Homeland Security sources told The Post
Trump is preparing to send 10,000 troops to the border as part of his order for the US military to secure the nation's frontiers.
He also sent 1,500 troops to the border Wednesday, who will reinforce about 2,200 active-duty soldiers and thousands of state national guardsmen already there.
"President Trump signed an executive order — 1,500 additional troops to the United States southern border. This comes off of his day one action… to direct the Department of Defense to make homeland security a core mission of the agency," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
"This is something President Trump campaigned on. The American people have been waiting for such a time as this, for our Department of Defense to actually take homeland security seriously. This is a number one priority of the American people and the president has already delivered."
Additional reporting by Steven Nelson
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Not bad for day 1.
The right people are protecting us again.
In 2022 under Biden ICE arrested 154,204 undocumented immigrants, that's an average of 422 a day. But let's not let facts get in the way of a bunch of bigoted conservative bros giving themselves a pat on the back, I'm sure they need it since they were so discriminated against and passed over for promotions and lost so many jobs to undocumented immigrants who have just been making their lives hell... oh wait, that's actually not fucking happening anywhere. I guess that just means these rightwing MAGA conservative fuckwads just like rubbing each other's backs while watching the brown immigrants they believe themselves superior to get deported.
How many felons in American cities did they arrest per day?
Last year under Biden ICE arrested just over 81,000 undocumented immigrant felons which made up almost 72% of all undocumented immigrant arrests so that would be an average of 221 felons a day.
So clearly, the difference between a single day Trump's ICE arrest of 300 felons and Bidens average of 221 a day for 2024 really shows the divide between the "open Borders" Democratic administration and the new "Lockdown America!" MAGA crowd. /s
Can you provide a source for that and make sure it doesn't count stops at the border so we are comparing apples to apples.
" ICE continued to prioritize its enforcement resources by arresting noncitizens with criminal convictions or pending charges. Over 81,312 (71.7%) of the 113,431 arrests were of noncitizens with criminal convictions or pending charges."
ICE releases Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report | ICE
Clearly these were not simply "border stops" as they were noncitizens with criminal convictions or pending charges.
Don't worry, I don't actually expect any Trump supporters to admit how wrong they've been or how bamboozled they were by all the bullshit shoveled into their ears by rightwing media, but the facts show that the Biden administration did in fact take border enforcement seriously and did not just want "open borders". They wanted congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, but Trump sunk the bipartisan bill last year because he couldn't let the Democrats have any wins. It's his scorched earth politics which will inevitably burn our nation and his own supporters but apparently, they're just too fucking stupid to realize it or too fucking ignorant to care.
So you weren't comparing apples to apples. You are conflating custodial arrests when ICE takes custody of people already arrested by state and local officials with ICE actually arresting criminals in the field like the operation we are discussing. You should read the report you linked more closely. And per the report, less than 20% of the people the Biden admin claims credit for deporting were arrested in the interior of the country, the overwhelming majority occurred at the border.
Don't worry, I don't actually expect any Biden apologists to admit how wrong they are.
That's not what ICE indicated so please do provide some evidence for your claim.
The reality is that under the Biden administration ICE was still doing its job albeit with some additional oversight and empathy. Under Trump it's not going to change much, just the oversight and empathy are getting ditched.
It's literally from the report you cited.
The more things change, the more they seem the same.
Tracking administrative arrests by ICE through the Biden, Trump presidencies
It's best not to believe the ruling party propaganda without doing at least a cursory internet search.../s
A good start. Keep it up
"So, they're out there right now looking for the most serious public safety threats and throughout the country
the violent aliens democrats are so desperate to protect from deportation
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Wonder if the cartel is in on that "plan".
It is debatable whether a weak government like Mexico's can take in migrants.
"Wonder if the cartel is in on that "plan"."
Since most likely a bunch of cartel "assets" will be among the deported, it's probably a good bet they are.
I doubt they can. They've been pushing them north for years now.
That is a good point.
Yawn, 308 ICE arrests are about average.
It's below average actually. The average for 2022 under Biden was 422 a day. But hey, let's not ruin the room temp IQ crowds 'big win!'.
And in 2023 they average 202 a day, cherry picking statistics is fun for fooling the low IQ crowd.