Border Czar Tom Homan announced on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and cooperating law enforcement officers had already made some 1300 arrests through deportation operations since President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Among them, according to a report published Friday by The New York Post, were known pedophiles, gang members, and at least one suspected terrorist who was living in New York.
Homan discussed the unfolding situation with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, where he 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.
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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.”
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“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? 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, but they got caught up when ICE agents arrested someone else who should have been held by local authorities but were 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.”
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.
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ICE agents in Buffalo announced the apprehension of “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.” The third arrest in Buffalo was Canadian citizen Albert Mills, who 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.
