Trump administration carries out multiple raids targeting ‘criminal aliens’ in first weekend

Federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and their partners conducted nationwide roundups of much than 1,200 amerciable immigrants implicit the play who were charged oregon convicted with committing crimes connected American soil.

In a bid of photos shared by ICE Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) from seashore to coast, agents tin beryllium seen taking handcuffed suspects away.

In Atlanta, which is much than 1,000 miles from the U.S.-Mexico borderline but became a lightning rod successful the migration statement aft an amerciable migrant brutally murdered a jogging assemblage pupil successful wide daylight, ERO teamed up with the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Homeland Security Investigations to drawback "criminal aliens" disconnected the streets and hole them for deportation flights.

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Federal agents with a suspected transgression alien astatine an Atlanta airdrome terminal up of a deportation flight. (HSI Atlanta)

Miami-based national agents arrested astatine slightest 4 amerciable immigrants accused of committing crimes connected U.S. ungraded implicit the weekend, including a Nicaraguan jailed successful Broward County for an alleged shooting.

Up north, a associated cognition including ICE, the FBI, ATF, DEA, Border Patrol and U.S. Marshals was underway in Chicago, a struggling bluish metropolis wherever Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson has vowed to "protect" illegals from enforcement operations.

The "enhanced targeted operations" successful the Windy City were designed to "enforce U.S. migration instrumentality and sphere nationalist information and nationalist information by keeping perchance unsafe transgression aliens retired of our communities," ICE said successful a statement.

Boston ERO announced the apprehension of a Haitian antheral with 17 transgression convictions successful Massachusetts, suspected pack subordinate Wisteguens Charles.

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"Mr. Charles is illegally contiguous successful the United States and has consistently breached our laws, causing important harm to the residents of Massachusetts," Patricia Hyde, the acting manager of the Boston Field Office, said successful a statement. "ERO Boston volition not tolerate the repeated victimization of our New England neighborhoods. We volition proceed our ngo to apprehend specified amerciable alien offenders and region them from our communities."

Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, a Haitian nationalist and alleged pack subordinate with 17 transgression convictions successful Massachusetts successful a two-year span, pictured aft ICE agents from Boston arrested him past week. (ICE ERO Boston)

Charles, 25, archetypal entered the U.S. illegally successful 2013 and betwixt 2022 and 2024, helium racked up 17 transgression convictions. ICE filed an migration detainer petition successful 2023, but a Massachusetts jailhouse ignored it and released him backmost into the community, authorities said. 

The arrests travel arsenic portion of what ICE said would beryllium an cognition targeting "known transgression aliens who endanger nationalist information oregon nationalist safety."

President Donald Trump campaigned heavy connected borderline information aft his predecessor, erstwhile President Joe Biden, appeared ineffective oregon unwilling to halt an influx of amerciable migration for years. 

Federal agents detain a antheral accused of migration crime. (HSI Atlanta)

By the clip helium yet acknowledged the issue, a question of high-profile migrant crimes had shocked the state and shattered victims’ families. The parents of immoderate of those murdered American women and girls went to Capitol Hill to lobby for the Laken Riley Act, the archetypal measure Congress sent to Trump aft his instrumentality to the White House.

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Riley, a 21-year-old Georgia nursing student, was brutally killed astatine random portion jogging successful Athens, astir 75 miles eastbound of Atlanta, by a Venezuelan amerciable with suspected ties to the Tren de Aragua gang. 

Jose Ibarra, 26, was convicted of 10 counts successful November and sentenced to life without parole. He had entered the U.S. illegally successful 2022 and received borderline parole, freeing him to question wrong the country.

A suspected transgression alien is processed by ICE and Homeland Security Investigations agents. (ERO Atlanta)

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He racked up transgression charges successful New York City, wherever authorities released him earlier ICE could lodge a detainer. He past made his mode to Georgia, wherever helium attacked and murdered Riley.  

"Removing transgression aliens from our communities isn’t conscionable enforcement — it’s protection," HSI's Atlanta office said successful a connection implicit the play arsenic portion of the deportation sweep. "Ensuring the information and information of our neighborhoods starts with upholding the law."

Fox News' Heather Lacy contributed to this report.