President Donald Trump’s federal immigration agents have begun rounding up illegal aliens in the “sanctuary city” of Denver, Colorado.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) started arresting criminal aliens on Monday as part of Trump’s mass deportation plan.
Police have revealed that the ICE arrests have expanded throughout the Rocky Mountain state since the operation launched in deep blue Denver immediately after Trump was sworn in on Monday.
ICE has now detained a large number of foreign criminals who are now being prepared for deportation.
Former Colorado Immigration Enforcement Director John Fabbricatore told the Daily Mail:
“ICE agents are doing their job– the job they should have been doing for the last four years.
“This is an all-hands-on-deck situation where they are using all the agents they have at their disposal.”
On Tuesday afternoon, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan confirmed Tuesday afternoon that deportations are already underway.
However, he didn’t give any details about where they were happening.
“These cases were already in the hopper,” the former ICE director added.
“They’ve done the surveillance on them, they have good case notes, and they’re just hitting those cases that they were not allowed to hit prior.”
Fabbricatore explained that former President Joe Biden’s administration had handcuffed agents from making arrests like this.
“There were these priorities that were put out that limited you,” Fabbricatore revealed.
“Like, you couldn’t go after DUIs.
“You couldn’t go after a basic drug possession.
“The Biden administration made these priorities that kept you from going after criminals.”
Non-criminal migrants who have a final order from a judge to leave the country are also being picked up.
However, at least 85% of those illegal aliens currently being sought have criminal records.
“Potentially, that person may not be a criminal but they still have gone through the immigration process, seen an immigration judge, and refused to leave,” Fabbricatore stated.
Law enforcement cautioned that these are not raids, however.
Agents aren’t fishing for any person who might be in the U.S. illegally, they are specifically targeting known criminal aliens as a priority.
They’re calling the first wave “targeted enforcement,” meaning agents have already investigated who these people are and why they are being detained.
They also explained similar arrests are happening across the country.
Even though ICE is only going after people who have pending cases at this time, other illegal aliens will likely be targeted as the next priority.
“Any collaterals that they come across while targeting a criminal alien is on the table right now,” Fabbricatore admitted.
“If they go into an apartment looking for a gang member who’s wanted, and he’s got two buddies in there and they’re both illegal, they may pick them up as well.”
In October, Trump traveled to Aurora, a suburb of Denver, to launch “Operation Aurora.”
Aurora has been overrun with violent gangs of foreign criminals.
The city has become a stronghold for the bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, known as TdA to police.
In some areas, armed illegal alien gangs have taken over entire apartment blocks and have been left to terrorize citizens by local authorities.
After slipping across the southern border posing as asylum-seekers, gang members infiltrated at least three apartment complexes in the area.
TdA thugs took over vacant apartment units to use drug and prostitution dens– pimping out migrant women and even children.
Other migrants who lived in those properties were forced to pay the foreign criminals “rent” or face violence.
In August, a video of armed gang members storming a unit at the Edge of Lowry surfaced and made national headlines.
TdA has also been linked to many high-profile crimes across the country, including murders, rapes, police beatings and extortions.
Trump billed “Operation Aurora” as the largest deportation plan in the nation’s history.