U.S. Authorities To Detain Up To 1,500 Migrants Per Day
Immigration agents and police prepare to raid migrants in NYC, Jan. 27, 2025.
January 28, 2025 Hour: 2:38 pm
Immigration agents have been increasing the pace of raids since Donald Trump assumed office on January 20.
On Tuesday, NBC News reported that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency will focus its raid efforts on three cities each week, aiming to detain up to 1,500 undocumented immigrants daily.
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Immigration agents have been increasing the pace of raids since Donald Trump assumed office last Monday with a promise of mass deportations.
This week, ICE began its operations in Chicago on Sunday and continued in New York on Tuesday morning, in a field operation led by the new Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem. The third city of the week will be Aurora, a predominantly Hispanic suburb of Denver, Colorado. The plan is to shift operations to three other cities next week.
Additionally, sources cited by NBC News and The Washington Post indicated that the Trump administration has set a daily detention target of between 1,200 and 1,500 undocumented immigrants for ICE agents spread across its 25 offices nationwide.
Yesterday, ICE detained 1,179 people, the highest number since Trump took office. Of those, only 613—or 52%—were classified as “criminal arrests” of immigrants with criminal records in the United States or pending cases in other countries.
On Tuesday, Coral Gables police in Florida arrested two suspected human traffickers after discovering 26 migrants packed inside two vans.
The human traffickers were discovered after a passerby told police that a woman was being pushed into the back seat of a vehicle with Texas license plates parked near a moving truck in a neighborhood in this city. The agents stopped both vehicles and discovered migrants from China, Brazil, and Ecuador inside.
teleSUR/ JF Source: EFE
