The application of immigration and customs has arrested more than 32,000 migrants living in the United States without legal status since January 21, one day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, according to officials of the Department of National Security.
These numbers include general arrests made by ICE, arrests made in the Alien criminal program and an association program called 287G, according to a senior ICE official.
In the first 50 days of the Trump administration, immigration officials arrested more than 14,000 convicted criminals, 9,800 migrants who have pending criminal charges of 1,155 alleged gang members and 44 foreign fugitives, according to a senior ICE official.
In this February 5, 2025, the photo of the archive, the Immigration and Customs Compliance agents stop a man after making a raid in the Cedar Run Apartment Complex in Denver, Colorado.
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But in a call with a group of reporters on Wednesday, the upper ICE official called at 8,718 “immigration offenders”. ” During the previous interviews with ABC News and other points of sale, ICE has referred to these arrests as “collateral damage”, people who are not necessarily the objective but are swept in the process.
“We finish the capture [and] Liberation, and we have returned ICE to its main mission, which is arresting people who violate our immigration law, “said Ice Todd Lyons interim.” Secretary Noem and I are changing ICE’s culture to an action and responsibility. “
In this archive photo of February 5, 2025, a 47 -year -old Mexican man with three convictions for driving under influence is arrested by federal agents of the law led by the United States immigration and customs application in Rex, south of Atlanta, Georgia.
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During the call, ICE officials were pressed on the future detention space and deportation numbers. They did not give new details about deportations, but admitted that some people have been released under their surveillance due to “judicial liberation” and through “medical conditions and other humanitarian factors.”
ICE also said that it is maximized in detention facilities, with approximately 47,000 beds taken, and the official said that ICE is growing potential space through associations with the US Sheriffs service. UU. And the Federal Prison Office. He is also pressing Congress to act and provide more funds for his efforts.
Immigration and Customs Compliance officers of the United States arrest a Honduran citizen in York, Pennsylvania, on February 14, 2025.
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