Chicago – Immigration application operations took place in several cities on Sunday, marking what President Donald Trump has called the beginning of an era of mass deportations that would be directed mainly too.
Trump’s border tsar, Tom Homan, told NBC News on Sunday that several people convicted of serious crimes, including murder and sexual crimes, were arrested. He added that collateral arrests, arrests of people without criminal convictions that were present during the raids would be produced.
The application of immigration and customs said in a statement on Sunday that their improved operations aim of our communities “.
Homan said that the people arrested on Sunday in Chicago included six sexual crimes convicted of serious, multiple gangs and two others that were previously convicted of aggravated sexual assassination and aggression.
He also developed the possibility of operations in places like churches and schools after Trump rescinded a previous long -standing orientation that had designated areas such as “sensitive locations.” The decisions to enter these spaces would be taken in a “case -by -case case,” said Homan.
“We have to put the security of the United States first,” said Homan, who was in Chicago for application operations.
The Washington Post reported Sunday, citing four people with knowledge, that Trump officials have ordered ICE officials to arrest 1,200 to 1,500 people a day, compared to a few hundred.
When asked about the reports, Homan told NBC News that the goal is to “obtain as many criminals as possible.”
“I don’t have a share,” he said. “My instructions for them: arrest as many as you can.”
Follow live updates
The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, expresses feelings found on application actions. Pritzker said Sunday in CNN that he supports deporting people convicted of violent crimes, but he does not agree to attack the respectful people of the law.
“Why are we behind them?” asked. “These are not people who are causing problems in our country, and what we need is a path to citizens for them.
“We need to ensure our edge. We need to get rid of violent criminals, but we also need to protect people, at least the residents of Illinois and throughout the country who are only doing what we expect immigrants to do, ”he added.
The offices of the drug control administration in other cities said Sunday on social networks that the agency helped carry out operations that arrested or arrested people in the country illegally.
The Rocky Mountain Division of the DEA said that, together with its federal and local partners, it carried out an operation in an “improvised nightclub” on the early Sunday in Adams County, Colorado, where almost 50 people in the country were not authorized .
The DEA said that many of them had connections with the Venezuelan Gang Train of Aragua.
A spokesman for the agency later said Sunday that at least 100 agents of the law participated in the morning raid and that the operation had a federal search warrant.
The DEA said that 49 people were in place when the order was delivered and that 41 of them were in the country without authorization. The officer did not disclose any other information about the states of the 41, apart from that they were a mixture of men and women and that were taken to a nearby ice processing installation.
The officer said that several guns were found, as well as effective and drugs, in the place and that gang members “were trying to flood the Denver metropolitan area with false fentanyl pills.”
Research on the nightclub has been ongoing since August under the Biden administration, said the officer.
In California, the Los Angeles Division of the DEA said on social networks that he was helping other federal agencies with “improved operations improved throughout the city. The agency’s office in San Diego also said he was helping with the efforts of the efforts of Immigration application.
The Phoenix division of the DEA and its Atlanta division also said on social networks that they were helping with immigration operation efforts.
It was not clear immediately how many people in total were arrested or detained in the operations on Sunday, nor how many of those arrested had a criminal record or convictions. ICE did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
In a series of publications on social networks on Sunday, the White House said ICE agents arrested several people in recent days, who have been convicted or suspicious or loved in relation to crimes.
The arrests were made by ice divisions in Washington, California, Louisiana, New York and other states, according to the positions.
Austin Mullen and Sarah Ford contributed.
