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(NewsNation) — During his archetypal week backmost successful office, President Donald Trump's medication carried retired nationwide Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, with respective operations taking spot Sunday.
ICE raids successful aggregate large U.S. cities person led to the arrests of much than 1,300 transgression migrants, Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan told NewsNation connected Thursday. On Friday, 1 apprehension was a convicted murderer and 10 were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, NewsNation's Ali Bradley reported.
Raids person taken spot successful large cities specified arsenic Boston, Denver, New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Miami, Washington, D.C., and Newark, N.J., according to media reports.
The fig of arrests successful the archetypal 3 days of Trump’s presidency represents astir 1.1% of full arrests made by ICE in FY 2024.
Here's wherever raids person happened Sunday.
Chicago
Top Trump medication officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting lawman lawyer general, visited Chicago connected Sunday to witnesser the commencement of ramped-up migration enforcement successful the nation’s third-largest city.
The DEA’s Chicago bureau posted pictures connected X showing Bove and Homan with agents from ATF and Customs and Border Protection.
The cognition comes conscionable days aft reports leaked of wide deportation raids planned successful the Windy City.
Chicago and authorities officials, including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, person vowed to support migrant communities from wide deportations.
Denver
ICE tooki astir 50 radical into custody — including members of the Tren de Aragua gang — successful an overnight raid astatine a "makeshift nightclub," according to an X station from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Division.
The DEA, Homeland Security, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and “local partners” seized drugs, weapons and currency successful the raid.
The raid was connected to a DEA cause trafficking probe that began respective months earlier President Donald Trump took bureau during the Biden Administration, a DEA authoritative told NewsNation section affiliate KDVR reports.
Austin, Texas
A bid of ICE raids were conducted successful Austin connected Sunday, DEA sources confirmed to NewsNation section affiliate KXAN.
“The raids are underway oregon person been done,” said Sally Sparks, a DEA Houston Division spokesperson, said successful a telephone call.
In an X post, the Houston DEA Division confirmed the DEA is moving with Department of Justice partners, the Department of Homeland Security and different national instrumentality enforcement partners with these efforts.
New Jersey
Paterson, N.J., Mayor Andre Sayegh told affiliate PIX11 that ICE agents are successful the town.
“We are genuinely concerned. We are a welcoming city. Quite frankly, determination has to beryllium an due procedure. If they person a warrant, we understand. If they don’t, radical person to cognize their rights. As a substance of fact, I did get a study contiguous that ICE was successful Paterson, not excessively acold from here,” said Mayor Sayegh.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said ICE agents raided a seafood store and detained 3 radical connected Thursday.
Los Angeles
An station from the Los Angeles DEA Division confirmed that the section "participated successful an operation" connected Sunday that supported the Justice Department, DHS and different national instrumentality enforcement partners with their "#immigration enforcement efforts."
NewsNation’s Safia Samee Ali, Damita Menezes and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
