President Donald Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan has announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested hundreds of dangerous criminal illegal aliens who will now be deported.
Homan revealed that, in collaboration with local law enforcement, ICE has arrested roughly 1,300 illegal aliens.
Agents arrested the illegals this week during deportation operations ordered by Trump.
Among those arrested were known pedophiles and violent gang members, according to a Friday report by The New York Post.
In addition, at least one suspected terrorist, who was living illegally in New York, was captured.
Homan discussed the unfolding situation with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo.
The border czar explained that of the 1300 arrests, more than 1000 had committed additional crimes other than simply coming into the United States illegally or overstaying a legal visa.
The deportation operations have been prioritizing dangerous criminal illegal aliens over regular border crossers.
“What I can tell you right now, Chris, is we’ve arrested 1300 people, over a thousand of them are criminals,” Homan began.
“Who are the other ones?” he continued.
“They’re either fugitives who’ve been through immigration court, have been ordered to be removed but didn’t, became a fugitive, or collaterals.”
Homan went on to explain that “collaterals” were illegal aliens who had not necessarily committed additional crimes other than entering the country illegally.
However, they got caught up when ICE agents arrested someone else who should have been held by local authorities but was not because they were in a “sanctuary” jurisdiction.
“Look, I said from day one, no one’s off the table,” Homan added.
“If you’re in the United States illegally, you’ve got a problem.
“But we are concentrating on public safety threats first.
“That just makes sense.”
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🚨NEW: Tom Homan reveals that ICE has already made 1300 arrests during deportation operations:
“We’ve arrested 1300 people, over a thousand of them are criminals.”
“The other ones are either fugitives who’ve been through immigration court, that became a fugitive, or… pic.twitter.com/wEQlGKy9QX
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 24, 2025
The Post reported that ICE New York had released a statement announcing the capture of “Gokhan Adriguzel, a 30-year-old Turkish national who is a ‘known or suspected terrorist.’”
“Juan Francisco Sanchez Contreras, 22, an El Salvador national, is an MS-13 gang member and was illegally living in the United States until today,” the statement also revealed.
ICE agents in Buffalo announced the apprehension of known pedophiles.
“Pedro Julio Meja, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was previously convicted of sexual conduct against a child,” along with “Luis Alberto Espinoza-Boconsaca, an Ecuadorian who was convicted of rape” were both arrested.
The third arrest in Buffalo was Canadian citizen Albert Mills.
Mills was previously convicted of “endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of stolen property.”
ICE made arrests in cities across the United States — including two Chinese nationals in St. Louis, Missouri; 24-year-old Venezuelan and known Tren de Aragua member Yoswaldo Jose Mata-Ribice in San Antonio, Texas; and 42-year-old Mexican national and Barrio Azteca gang member Jesus Alberto Barron-Lavin in El Paso, Texas.
A violent Haitian gang member with 18 criminal convictions in recent years was among several arrested in Boston during a raid that was documented in real-time by Fox News.
The video shows the moment the foreign criminal was arrested as he thanked Joe Biden and Barack Obama “for everything” they did to help him remain in America illegally.
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🚨 Watch the stunning moment when @BillMelugin_ joined ICE on an immigration raid in Boston to arrest an illegal alien gang member from Haiti:
“F*** Trump! You feel me? Yo, Biden forever, bro! Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro!” pic.twitter.com/qCUor01OHD
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) January 23, 2025
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