Deportation officials caught nearly 400 illegal immigrants in Massachusetts in just a few days, marking the state’s massive distance that largely refused to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 370 illegal immigrants in Bay during “enhanced target enforcement work” spanning March 18-23, of which 205 carry “significant” criminal records. According to Agent. The operation has gone to zero for organized crime, gangs and other violent illegal immigrants living in Massachusetts. (Related: Trump administrator accused of the end of the Biden-era immigrant parole program plagued by fraud)
“Through this enhanced enforcement business, we have targeted the most dangerous alien criminals in some of the most crime-hit regions in and around Boston,” Patricia Hyde, acting Boston field office director, said in a statement.
“ICE and our federal law enforcement partners are committed to protecting our hometowns through eradicating cross-border criminal organizations, dismantling dangerous criminal gangs that prey on Americans, finding and arresting foreign criminals, and making our communities safer,” Hyde continued.
370 foreign criminals stopped ice while strengthening their operations in Massachusetts. The image is courtesy of immigration and customs enforcement.
According to ICE, the six-day immigrant raid targeted gang bangers across the Boston area and statewide. Among those arrested were Tren de Aragua, MS-13, 18th Avenue and Trinitarios. This has been linked to alleged rape and murder activities across the United States and the acquisition of an entire apartment in Aurora, Colorado.
Of the 205 individuals with serious criminal records, six currently face convictions of murder, money laundering, drug trafficking and organized crime. The Massachusetts business was carried out in conjunction with the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Customs and Border Protection, and other federal agencies.
Two Brazilian citizens sought for murder and murder, and Honduras citizens, a Dominican citizen who was previously taken aside for fentanyl trafficking in Boston, were convicted after excluded from raping a child and not registering as a sex offender.
“We should agree that we cannot and cannot tolerate crimes that not only violate immigration laws, but also put our community at risk,” said Leah Foley, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. “People who enter and stay in this country illegally are breaking the law.”
The Massachusetts raid followed a massive ice operation that ended in Houston, Texas in March, with agents giving birth to 646 illegal immigrants.
Immigration officials arrested more than 20,000 illegal immigrants in President Donald Trump’s first month, far beyond the Biden administration’s arrest rate. An ICE spokesman confirmed in early March that more than 30,000 immigrant arrests had been made so far under Trump, which made border enforcement a top priority.
The entire state of Massachusetts is considered a sanctuary heaven for illegal immigration, and the Center for Immigration Research points to a court decision in July 2017. Include the condition of the bay On a map of their sanctuary. Boston, known as the infamous sanctuary city, has doubled the sanctuary law after Trump’s reelection victory, and Mayor Michelle Wu was called to testify before Congress that he refused to work with ice agents.
Local news investigation Many cases of Massachusetts courts were found incredibly low bail for non-citizens who were accused of stealing children and were released before ice agents arrived at the scene to make their arrest. An investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation has revealed that Lucio Tomar, an illegal immigrant from Cape Verde, has repeatedly caught publicly masturbating in the Boston area over the course of 20 years, and has returned to the community until Ice Agent grabbed him in 2024.
In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Council, Tom Homan, a border border area mandated to lead the Trump administration’s deportation effort, tore Boston’s police chief up for running for the city’s sanctuary policy.
“I’m coming to Boston and bringing hell,” Homan said. “You’re not the police chief. Please remove that badge from your chest. Put it in the desk drawer.”
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