Chicago – Several immigration and customs compliance agents and other federal staff waited in unmarked cars while preparing to address what they called their goal.
According to ICE, Christopher Fragoso Lara, 25, from Mexico, had been convicted of home invasion, aggravated aggression, domestic aggression, possession of a weapon and other crimes. A surveillance team had seen him Monday morning at the Chicago tire store, where he worked.
The agents closed the street outside the business and arrested Fragoso Lara while talking with a client outside, in floors detection temperatures.
The arrest took place without incident when NBC News was integrated with agents during operations throughout the Chicago area on Monday morning. Application agents left the center of Chicago before dawn and led to Berwyn, a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city.
Three door payroll operations did not result in arrests, but demonstrated the time and labor that enters the operations. In each place, there were at least seven officers, from ICE and the Office of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, covering all entrances and exits.
Ten teams of about 10 federal agents each moved throughout the city on Monday, said a source familiar with operations. The operations occurred during the operations of application of immigration in multiple cities throughout the country ordered by President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration has sought last week to publicly demonstrate that it is following Trump’s promises to promulgate mass deportations immediately after having assumed the position. The arrest numbers last week remained as of September, the last month for which the figures were available, until Friday, when the numbers doubled.
On Sunday, ICE arrested 1,179 people, according to the data obtained for the first time by NBC News. The figure, which is higher than the 956 arrests announced by the agency on Sunday night, is the largest number under the new administration.
When Fragoso Lara was arrested, Chicago resident Peter Sodini was watching. He thanked the ice agents.
“I don’t care an immigrant, but they are violating our laws, they don’t need to be here,” he said.
Subsequently, Fragoso Lara was taken to an ice processing installation on the outskirts of Chicago, where the detainees are photographed, digital footprints and retained until their deportation flights, which generally take place on Fridays.
He said he grew up in the United States and that if he is deported, he will leave his 5 -year -old daughter here in the United States so he can have a better life.
“She is without me. She grows without a father, ”said Fragoso Lara, added that her message to Trump would be to ask for a second chance. “I’m still young. I made bad decisions, but … I grew up and see how life is here. “
Twenty -five men and a woman were retained or processed in the installation on Monday afternoon. They are supposed to be there for no more than 12 hours.
Frank Padula, assistant director of the field office at the processing center, said the installation has been particularly occupied last week.
“We are non -stop,” he said. “As you can see, we have many types here processing, men in the detention cells waiting to be processed.”
While some operations, such as the one that arrested Fragoso Lara, succeeded, other times on Monday, ICE could not identify and stop their goals.
Early in the day, the ice agents and others knocked on a door and discovered that no one was at home. Then, at a second stop, they talked to the parents of their goal, who said they had lost contact with their son. The officers seemed not to ask the couple about their immigration status and move on to another place.
The Trump administration has said that repression is directed to criminals, but there has been concern that migrants respectful of the law with different forms of legal immigration status can also be rounded, also known as “collateral arrests.”
When asked about the collateral arrests, Sam Olson, the director of Execution and Removal Operations at the Chicago Campo Office, said they were possible. “We have the task of enforcing immigration laws,” he said. “If someone is illegally, if they have committed crimes or not, there is the possibility that they can be arrested.”
The authorities have not always revealed the number of migrants with and without a criminal record that have been arrested.
However, only 613 of the 1,179 people arrested on Sunday, almost 52%, were considered “criminal arrests,” said Trump administration official. The rest seems to be non -violent criminals or people who have not committed any criminal offense.
Being undocumented is considered a civil crime, not a crime. But it is considered a crime when an undocumented immigrant who was previously deported enters the United States without permission.
Since Trump assumed the position, the administration officials underline, the officers have arrested a series of violent gang members, including dozens of alleged members of the Venezuelan Gang Train of Aragua in Colorado. Even so, at least 566 people arrested on Sunday had not committed any crime and were arrested just because they lacked legal authorization to remain in the United States.
Olson said that while ICE works to arrest criminals daily, Trump has adopted a “general government approach” in which “we are really gathering many different agencies to do so.”
