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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests person topped 100,000 nether President Trump this year, according to a White House spokesperson.
The caller figures from White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson, and would people a large leap from the past year.
In fiscal twelvemonth 2024, ICE arrested 113,000 people, according to authorities statistics. Jackson said the medication has reached 100,000 arrests successful little than fractional a year.
The ICE numbers travel amid caller hostility betwixt the Trump medication and California officials implicit ICE raids successful Los Angeles, and consequent protests.
Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard members to the Los Angeles country connected Saturday amid anti-ICE protests. White House property caput Karoline Leavitt and different officials person leaned into the administration's migration enforcement successful their effect to the unrest.
“These operations are indispensable to halting and reversing the penetration of amerciable criminals into the United States. In the aftermath of this violence, California’s feckless Democrat leaders person wholly abdicated their work to support their citizens,” Leavitt said.
Earlier Monday, the president said that Los Angeles was “looking truly bad” arsenic helium pushed for troops to beryllium sent to the area.
“Looking truly atrocious successful L.A. BRING IN THE TROOPS!!!” Trump said connected his Truth Social platform.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) precocious said his authorities volition writer the Trump medication owed to its deployment of the National Guard to subdue protests against national migration raids.
