Sanctuary authorities in Connecticut released an illegal immigrant charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl and enticing minors online, forcing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to track him down in the community after officials declined to honor a detainer request, The Daily Wire has learned.
Ecuadorian national Christian Espinosa-Sarango, who is in the country illegally, was charged on December 19, 2025, in North Haven, Connecticut, with sexual assault, illegal sexual contact with a child, and enticing minors with a computer, according to the Department of Homeland Security. ICE lodged a detainer request on December 23 with local law enforcement, demanding that they notify federal immigration agents before he&#8217;s scheduled for release.
But local authorities did not comply and released him from jail on a $150,000 bond &#8220;onto Connecticut&#8217;s streets,&#8221; DHS said.
Espinosa-Sarango communicated with an undercover agent he believed was the aunt of a 13-year-old girl, <a href="https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/02/13/ice-agents-smash-car-window-detain-fair-havener-before-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New Haven Independent, citing an affidavit. When he found out the girl&#8217;s age, he allegedly began asking for photos and sex.
The undercover agent agreed and instructed him to come to a local hotel with condoms and $120, according to the local news outlet.
On December 19, he allegedly arrived at the hotel room with three condoms and $120 cash and was immediately arrested after knocking on the door.
Espinosa-Sarango claimed he went to the hotel to &#8220;save&#8221; the girl, but said he did not want to contact police until he saw her first, according to the local report.
ICE officers located Espinosa-Sarango on February 13, DHS said, and he allegedly resisted arrest. According to DHS, he attempted to flee in his vehicle and refused to roll down his window, forcing officers to break it to take him into custody.
DHS is blaming Connecticut&#8217;s sanctuary policies, arguing that restrictions on cooperation with ICE prevented local authorities from honoring the detainer request and allowed Espinosa-Sarango&#8217;s release.
“These are the types of monsters Connecticut sanctuary politicians are releasing from their jails and onto the streets to perpetuate more crimes against children,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.
“We need local law enforcement to cooperate with us to get these heinous criminals out of our neighborhoods. Seven of the 10 safest cities in the United States cooperate with ICE. This is a perfect example of why sanctuary policies make Americans less safe. Thankfully, because of our brave ICE agents, Christian Espinosa-Sarango, a pedophile, will never walk American streets again. Sanctuary politicians must stop releasing pedophiles, murderers, rapists, and kidnappers into our neighborhoods,&#8221; McLaughlin added.
Lawmakers in Connecticut amended the state&#8217;s sanctuary law this year in response to the Trump administration&#8217;s mass deportation effort, allowing illegal immigrants to sue local police agencies that communicate with ICE, <a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-09-03/updates-ct-trust-act-october-what-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WNPR.
The law was also expanded to allow local officers to comply with ICE if it involves cases of sexual assault, burglary with a firearm, and injury or risk of injury to a child, the report said.

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ICED OUT: Sanctuary Release Of Illegal Immigrant ‘Pedophile’ Backfires

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The severe winter weather sweeping across the Northeast pushed New York’s homeless death toll to nineteen on Thursday. New York City mayoral candidate and long time New Yorker, Curtis Sliwa, attributes the crisis to the city&#8217;s status as a &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; jurisdiction for illegal aliens — and says he’s “never seen it worse.” 
The massive influx of illegals during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s term — a fair number of whom were transported to sanctuary cities — put a strain on the already limited resources available to house the city&#8217;s homeless population, and Sliwa argued that has brought the crisis to a breaking point.
“I’m watching emotionally disturbed persons and homeless people exhibit Darwinian traits. Survival of the fittest,” Sliwa said. He described encountering a homeless man with no shoes who was missing half of his foot. The man told Sliwa that both his shoes, including the one specially made for his disability, had been stolen by the “stronger” homeless. Sliwa told the Daily Wire he and his nonprofit the Guardian Angels have encountered many grim scenarios while attempting to help the homeless through the winter spell.  
Sliwa said the crisis did not begin with the election of New York&#8217;s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but with the previous administration under Democrat Eric Adams. “A lot of this is the result of Eric Adams&#8217; failures as mayor, in which he housed a lot of the migrants, at the expense of our own homeless,” he said. “They spent $7 billion housing migrants that we didn&#8217;t even know in hotels, motels, giving them lodging, food, clothing. Okay. But we weren&#8217;t doing likewise with our own homeless and more importantly, the emotionally disturbed who should have been brought to mental health care hospitals because they clearly are a danger to themselves and everyone else.” 
In fiscal years 2024 and 2025, New York city spent $6.77 billion on funding for people seeking asylum in the United States. Financial support ranged from housing in shelters and New York hotels, prepaid debit cards to families in hotel-based, non-congregate shelters for food, legal and medical services, and relocation assistance. 
Sliwa says it’s New York’s homeless who end up paying the price. “Now we’re beginning to pay the price that our own homeless, who are out on their own for many months, many years as a result of the priority being the migrants.”
However, Sliwa did not entirely excuse Mamdani.  “I don’t see any of the homeless outreach workers that the mayor keeps talking about,” he said. 
Mamdani’s critics however argue  the newly appointed mayor’s end to end encampment sweeps has contributed to the rising death toll. Brian Stettin, a senior adviser in the Adams’ administration, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/us-news/mamdani-wont-budge-on-involuntary-removal-of-homeless-new-yorkers-from-streets-as-cold-deaths-reach-18/">told</a> the New York Post, “When a person is in imminent danger, there is no debate. Whatever ideological divides we should not have any impact on these policies during a ‘Code Blue.’” 
Sliwa added that his organization&#8217;s hands are tied. “We’re just citizens,” he said, noting the Guardian Angels cannot carry out involuntary removals to bring people indoors. “That has to be done by the city, the police department, and other agencies—but they’re just not doing that.”

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Curtis Sliwa Has Thoughts On How Mamdani Is Handling His First Emergency

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He snuck across the border illegally and went undetected. Then, he went on to allegedly rape three young children in Asheville, North Carolina, authorities said.
Now, federal immigration authorities are begging sanctuary officials to hand Mexican illegal immigrant Juan Ramon Juarez-Talamantes, 29, over to ICE before he has the opportunity to continue on with his violent rampage, The Daily Wire has learned.
“This depraved sicko is charged with raping three children. This criminal illegal alien has no place in American communities,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire on Tuesday.
“We are calling on Asheville sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this pedophile back into our communities to prey on more innocent children. If politicians allow state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, we can get criminals like this out of our country,&#8221; McLaughlin said.
Juarez-Talamantes was charged in November with two counts of statutory rape involving a child at least 13, 14, or 15 years of age, the Buncombe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile/100064864381225/search/?q=Talamantes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a recent press release. He was charged again last month for an incident involving a third victim.
Detectives first learned of Juarez-Talamantes&#8217; alleged crimes in July 2024 after receiving a report of a rape involving a child lured by a man named &#8220;Juan&#8221; on Snapchat, <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/crime/2026/01/27/asheville-man-arrested-child-rape-charges-ice-detainer/88359420007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Asheville Citizen Times.
The child and their friend met up with the man in his car before going to his house, according to the local report.
The child told detectives that the man kissed the child. When he attempted to &#8220;take it further,&#8221; the child told him &#8220;no.&#8221;
&#8220;He slapped (the child) on the face and proceeded to rape (the child),&#8221; according to the report.
The Asheville Police Department also received a similar report in September 2025.
The two agencies collaborated to confirm that Juarez-Talamantes was allegedly tied to both cases. Authorities later connected him to the third incident.
“We are very thankful for the partnership with the Asheville Police Department during this case and the tedious work and collaboration of the investigators to reach this result. These cases demonstrate the power community partnerships play in resolving problems for citizens of Buncombe County,&#8221; Buncombe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office District 2 Captain Chris Stockton said in a recent statement.
&#8220;Our hearts go out to those whose lives have been forever changed by these events and hope that the effort of these passionate investigators opens a door to healing,&#8221; Stockton said.
In May, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdnc/pr/sanctuary-policies-mecklenburg-and-buncombe-county-sheriffs-are-reckless-and-pose" target="_blank" rel="noopener">classified</a> Buncombe County as a sanctuary jurisdiction for refusing to honor ICE detainers. The county was later taken off the list after Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller called the label &#8220;inaccurate,&#8221; according to ABC13.
Miller asserted that his office adheres to a state law that forces police to honor ICE detainers, known as House Bill 10. However, the law only mandates sheriffs to honor detainers in instances where they have a judicial warrant, which isn&#8217;t the standard in federal immigration cases, <a href="https://www.wunc.org/race-class-communities/2024-11-25/immigration-enforcement-house-bill-10-north-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WUNC.
Before the legislation passed, Miller refused to honor ICE detainers and previously ended his office&#8217;s participation in the federal 287(g) program, where local officers help with immigration enforcement.
&#8220;Since the passage of House Bill 10, we&#8217;ve had 15 detainees that we&#8217;ve contacted ICE about, one of which is still in our custody, and we&#8217;ve just released one to ICE,&#8221; Miller said in a June 4 video.
&#8220;Before House Bill 10 became law, I did not honor ICE detainers. The reason I didn&#8217;t honor detainers at that time was because they were not signed by a judge and therefore not a valid court document to hold a detainee who otherwise would be eligible for release,&#8221; he said.
Last year, Miller said: &#8220;I have repeatedly spoken out against cooperation with ICE, saying federal immigration law is not the responsibility of local officers and damages law enforcement’s trust within the immigrant community.&#8221;
A spokesperson for the sheriff&#8217;s office didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether they would honor the ICE detainer.

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Feds Implore Sanctuary Authorities To Hand Over Illegal Charged With The Rape Of Three Kids

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U.S.

President Donald Trump seemed to signal a major change in his approach to federal immigration raids during an interview with NBC News that aired on Wednesday.
When looking at the next cities to send federal immigration agents, Trump said he&#8217;s not going to take the approach of thrusting ICE on areas that don&#8217;t want officers there.
&#8220;I say they have to ask, and they have to say please,&#8221; Trump told NBC News&#8217; Tom Llamas, referring to mayors and governors.
&#8220;I don’t wanna go and force ourselves into a city, even if their numbers are terrible. Like, for instance, I got a call from Jeff Landry, governor of Louisiana. He said, &#8216;We have a big problem. Could you go in and help us with,'&#8221; Trump said.
There are five new cities Trump has set his sights on for the next immigration raids, he said while declining to disclose the locations.
&#8220;We have five cities that we’re looking at very strongly, but we want to be invited,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;We’ll be announcing them very quickly. But— we could do something. As an example, I was called by people. San Francisco said, &#8216;Please, we have a Democrat mayor. He’s trying very hard. Would you&#8217;— friends of mine that live there. It’s got crime problems. &#8216;Would you let him do the job and not come in? Let’s see how it works.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Look, I can do it much quicker, much faster.&#8217; Don’t forget, we remove criminals. We took over 2,000 hard-core criminals out of Washington, D.C.,&#8221; he added.
The White House has since come out to clarify that the president&#8217;s statements had &#8220;nothing to do with mass deportations&#8221; and were in reference to general crime crackdowns involving National Guard.
&#8220;Total Fake News BS. President Trump is talking about National Guard deployments for crime reduction — like the highly successful operations in New Orleans, Memphis, D.C., etc., that were welcomed by their leaders,&#8221; the White House <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2019450288403366298?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X Thursday.
Llamas had asked him: &#8220;So I wanna be clear ‘cause it sounds like there is a shift in immigration enforcement here, that there’s gonna be a shift after Minneapolis. What should Americans expect going forward?&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> on helping cities remove criminals: &#8220;Well, one thing I say to my people&#8230; I say, &#8216;They have to ask, and they have to say please.'&#8221;
NBC: &#8220;Who has to ask, and who has to say please?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;The mayor or the governor.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/E7blNlEDJi">pic.twitter.com/E7blNlEDJi</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/2019198419601129886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration has focused its immigration efforts recently on Minneapolis following the fatal shootings of two anti-ICE activists.
Political leaders in Minnesota have demanded that federal immigration authorities leave the state.
Trump recently sent border czar Tom Homan to the Twin Cities to take command of immigration raids there. Homan announced Wednesday that he brokered an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; deal with local sheriffs, who have agreed to allow ICE into their jails to take custody of illegal immigrant inmates before they&#8217;re set to be released.
In exchange, Homan said there would be a &#8220;drawdown&#8221; of 700 federal immigration agents who would &#8220;immediately&#8221; leave Minneapolis.
The decision to send Homan to Minneapolis signaled a change in Trump&#8217;s approach to immigration raids. Homan replaced Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, who was known for his aggressive tactics, has since returned to his post leading agents in the El Centro sector of the California border.
During his interview with NBC News, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-mass-deportation-campaign-could-use-softer-touch-after-minneapolis-shootings?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Says+Mass+Deportation+Campaign+Could+Use+%E2%80%98Softer+Touch%E2%80%99+After+Minneapolis+Shootings">Trump acknowledged</a> that his immigration enforcement efforts could use a “softer touch” following the recent deadly shootings.

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‘We Want to Be Invited’: Trump Says He Won’t Send ICE To Cities That Don’t Want Immigration Raids

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A controversial new bill in Illinois would ban federal immigration agents hired under the Trump administration from ever working as local police in the sanctuary state.
Democratic Illinois State Senator Laura Fine, who is also running for Congress, introduced the <a href="https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/FullText?GAID=18&amp;DocNum=2820&amp;DocTypeID=SB&amp;LegId=0&amp;SessionID=114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> after the two recent fatal shootings in Minneapolis involving federal immigration authorities. Fine called the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti &#8220;a glass break moment,&#8221; adding, &#8220;enough is enough.&#8221;
&#8220;It is blatantly obvious that ICE officers are not going through extensive training. Hiring ICE agents for our local and state police force is not a priority, keeping our communities safe is. And my bill aims to do just that,&#8221; Fine said in a separate post.
&#8220;The message is simple: If you enabled the cruelty of the Trump administration, you don’t get to wear a badge in Illinois,&#8221; she earlier said.
The bill lays out &#8220;that a law enforcement agency may not hire &#8230; any person who was hired as a federal immigration officer by the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement between January 20, 2025 and January 20, 2029.&#8221;
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I’m headed to Springfield to urge my colleagues to support my bill banning Trump’s unqualified ICE hires from ever serving in state and local law enforcement in Illinois. Enough is enough. I’m doing this for the safety of all Illinoisans. In Congress, I will continue to fight to… <a href="https://t.co/rd5OMfFlj8">pic.twitter.com/rd5OMfFlj8</a>
— Laura Fine for Congress (@laurafineforIL9) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurafineforIL9/status/2011184130361323576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The Department of Homeland Security hit back at Fine&#8217;s proposal, with Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin telling The Daily Wire that the Democratic lawmaker is wrongly villainizing ICE agents who are taking criminal illegal immigrants off the streets after they were released under sanctuary policies.
“Illinois sanctuary politicians are falsely casting federal law enforcement as villains while ICE officers are being targeted, threatened, and doxxed simply for doing their jobs and enforcing our nation’s laws. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is held to the highest professional standard and officers regularly receive ongoing training,&#8221; McLaughlin said.
&#8220;As our brave law enforcement arrests and removes dangerous criminal illegal aliens, including murderers, rapists, and gang members from our communities, America can be proud of the professionalism our officers bring to the job day-in and day-out. Instead of working with us, Illinois sanctuary politicians RELEASE violent criminals from their jails directly back into our communities to perpetrate more crimes and create more victims,&#8221; she added.
Since January 20, Illinois authorities have released 1,768 criminal illegal immigrants who account for 5 homicides, 141 assaults, 23 burglaries, 4 robberies, 24 drug offenses, 15 weapons offenses, and 10 sexual predatory offenses, according to McLaughlin.
There are 4,015 illegal immigrants in Illinois with ICE detainer requests for a transfer to federal custody. Those targets account for 51 homicides, 1,134 assaults, 107 burglaries, 36 robberies, 275 dangerous drugs offenses, 120 weapons offenses, and 813 sexual predatory offenses.
The sanctuary state currently allows noncitizens to serve as police officers. ICE nabbed an illegal immigrant from Montenegro in October who was working as a police officer for the Hanover Police Department in Illinois.
A judge subsequently granted his immigration bond, leading the police department to bring him back on.

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Blue State Bill Would Ban ICE Agents Hired Under Trump From Working As Local Cops

New Illinois Bill Would Bar ICE Agents Hired Under Trump From Working As Local Cops

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President Donald Trump issued a strong warning to Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday morning after the mayor doubled down on refusing to cooperate with federal immigration agents.
After speaking with Trump by phone on Monday and meeting with border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday, Frey <a href="https://x.com/MayorFrey/status/2016241048209518736">said</a> Minneapolis would not cooperate in enforcing federal immigration laws. Trump blasted the mayor over the remark, which he called &#8220;a very serious violation of the Law.&#8221;
&#8220;Surprisingly, Mayor Jacob Frey just stated that, &#8216;Minneapolis does not, and will not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws.&#8217; This is after having had a very good conversation with him,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115972940749866695">wrote</a> on Truth Social. &#8220;Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!&#8221;
Frey <a href="https://x.com/MayorFrey/status/2016517831538446802">shot back</a> at Trump on Wednesday morning, saying, &#8220;The job of our police is to keep people safe, not enforce fed immigration laws. I want them preventing homicides, not hunting down a working dad who contributes to [Minneapolis] &amp; is from Ecuador. It’s similar to the policy your guy Rudy [Giuliani] had in NYC. Everyone should feel safe calling 911.&#8221;
Democrat-run Minneapolis has long been considered a &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; as it has enacted laws limiting how local authorities can work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Minneapolis revised its &#8220;<a href="https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/FileV2/52757/Revised%20Separation%20Ordinance.pdf">separation ordinance</a>&#8221; in December to state that the city would &#8220;vigorously oppose any effort to require the use of city resources for the enforcement of civil federal immigration laws.&#8221; The revised ordinance also states that city property and facilities cannot be used to enforce federal immigration laws.
Frey met with Homan in Minneapolis on Tuesday as more chaos has erupted in the city after Border Patrol shot and killed anti-ICE demonstrator Alex Pretti during a confrontation. Frey said he &#8220;shared with Mr. Homan the serious negative impacts&#8221; of the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, &#8220;as well as the strain it has placed on our local police officers.&#8221;
&#8220;I also made it clear that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws, and that we will remain focused on keeping our neighbors and streets safe,&#8221; Frey added. &#8220;City leaders will continue to stay in conversation with Mr. Homan and his team.&#8221;
Trump sent Homan to Minneapolis in a shift in strategy on the enforcement operation there as the administration faces criticism for its response to the shooting death of Pretti. The move effectively sidelined Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem&#8217;s role there, and Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino, who had been leading the Minneapolis deployment, was reassigned.
&#8220;I don’t think it&#8217;s a pullback, it&#8217;s a little bit of a change,&#8221; Trump told Fox News host Will Cain. &#8220;Everybody in this room that has a business, you make little changes.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, Bovino is very good, but he&#8217;s pretty out-there kind of a guy. In some cases, that&#8217;s good. Maybe it wasn&#8217;t good here,&#8221; he added.
Both Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said that they made progress in their talks with the Trump administration after Homan arrived in Minneapolis, but the Democratic leaders continue to call for federal immigration agents to leave the city and the surrounding area.
&#8220;Tom Homan&#8217;s a professional, which is a lot more than Bovino and Kristi Noem,&#8221; Walz <a href="https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2016518629433471339">told</a> CNN on Tuesday night. &#8220;But look, I think the thing we said is we&#8217;re very clear about this: we need these folks out of Minnesota and we need justice for Renee Good and for Alex [Pretti].&#8221;

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‘Playing With Fire!’: Trump Warns Minneapolis Mayor After He Doubles Down On Sanctuary Policy

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Federal immigration agents have deployed to Maine as part of a new initiative dubbed &#8220;Operation Catch of the Day,&#8221; according to Fox News.
The raids <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-launches-new-operation-maine-amid-trumps-broader-illegal-immigrant-crackdown-around-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> started with more than 50 arrests on Tuesday.
&#8220;We have approximately 1,400 targets here in Maine,&#8221; ICE Deputy Assistant Director Patricia Hyde told the outlet.
Hyde said the illegal immigrant targets had rap sheets for &#8220;rape of a child&#8221; and &#8220;drug trafficking,&#8221; as well as &#8220;sexual assaults, simple assaults,&#8221; and &#8220;driving while under the influence.&#8221;
&#8220;You name it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They&#8217;re on the target list.&#8221;
At the start of the operation, ICE nabbed a Sudanese man with more than a dozen criminal convictions, according to Fox News. He also had a deportation order.
Two Ecuadorian illegal immigrants were also caught after they were charged with drunk driving. One of them was released into the country after crossing the border unlawfully during the Biden administration.
The sanctuary city mayor of Portland, Maine, Mark Dion, came out against news of the deployment last week.
&#8220;There is no evidence of unchecked criminal activity in our community requiring a disproportionate presence of federal agents. In that view, Portland rejects the need for the deployment of ICE agents into our neighborhoods,&#8221; Dion said.
&#8220;As a reminder, Portland Police does not cooperate with ICE, and they do not participate in enforcing federal immigration law,&#8221; he added.
Maine Democratic Governor Janet Mills also condemned the deployment before it commenced, calling out ICE for its tactics. She also mobilized local law enforcement to respond if needed, but it&#8217;s unclear what orders they were given.
&#8220;Maine knows what good law enforcement looks like because our law enforcement are held to high professional standards,&#8221; Mills said.
&#8220;And, I&#8217;ll tell you this, they don&#8217;t wear a mask to shield their identities and they don&#8217;t arrest people in order to fill a quota,&#8221; she added.
Most recently, the Trump administration has flooded Minnesota with federal immigration agents, arresting more than 3,000 illegal immigrants in the last six weeks, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said this week. Federal immigration agents have also conducted similar operations in cities like New Orleans, Charlotte, Memphis, and Chicago.

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ICE Launches Raids Against Illegal Immigrants In Maine

ICE Launches New Raids Targeting Illegal Immigration In Maine

Maine

There’s still chaos surrounding what&#8217;s going on with ICE.
The anger is palpable in places like Minneapolis. People don&#8217;t believe they&#8217;re breaking the law even when they&#8217;re breaking the law. But if you get in the way of ICE officials who are attempting to pursue a federal operation, you are violating federal law, and you will get yourself into hot water.
 According to The Washington Post:
<blockquote>The fatal shooting of Renee Good last week, as ICE officers and residents faced off on a residential street here, has brought new attention to these activities. &#8230; Federal court rulings say citizens can observe and record police activity in public areas as part of their First Amendment rights, and many of the observers are doing nothing more than that. They say that they believe authorities are less likely to use force if someone is recording and that they are providing a public service by letting their communities know when federal immigration officers are nearby.
But as officers and agents employ aggressive tactics, some activists have blown whistles to warn community members of approaching law enforcement, tried to follow immigration enforcement vehicles or used their own cars to block the roadways — entering murkier legal territory. Some legal experts said such behavior could in theory justify obstruction-of-justice charges, but they added that any such prosecution would be unusual.</blockquote>
I interviewed Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for Homeland Security, who noted that the department’s “top priority are these gang members who are murderers, rapists, child pedophiles.”
“I see the reports every single day,” she continued. “And what we&#8217;ve seen is just flabbergasting as far as the number of criminals who have been allowed to walk around with impunity in this country. There&#8217;s been over a thousand known or suspected terrorists that we&#8217;ve arrested in the last year, 3,500 members of Tren de Aragua that we&#8217;ve arrested and there&#8217;s plenty more who are out there. And that&#8217;s why we have been flooding the zone to get these individuals out of our country.”
I asked if ICE needed to be as visible as they are while pursuing these operations.
“I think we should take a step back and talk about what a sanctuary city means when we&#8217;re talking about Minneapolis, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago,” she replied. “What exactly does that mean? It means that these sanctuary city politicians are harboring these criminal illegal aliens, but it also means that our law enforcement is not permitted to work with them  &#8230; ICE law enforcement is not allowed into the jails.”
“So if Chicago picks up a criminal illegal alien — maybe they picked up somebody who was convicted of rape and that person is in their jail — they&#8217;re not allowed to release them to ICE or coordinate their eventual release to ICE for eventual deportation,” she continued. “What happens is that person will serve a certain amount of time, then they&#8217;ll be released back onto the street. So the reason that we have such a large law enforcement presence is because we can&#8217;t go into those jails to target those criminals, and so we have to really sweep the city, and target them using intelligence, using our case analysis, and make sure that we&#8217;re going after these individuals.”
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“Immigration enforcement is polarizing, particularly to those on the Left, but the truth of the matter is, this was the mandate that President Trump was given when he was elected into office,” she asserted. “The American people saw that crime was surging. If you look at Minneapolis alone, since Governor Walz became governor, homicides in Minneapolis have increased 50%. But I think when you look at this particular incident, of course, any loss of life is tragic. And we pray for the deceased and her family. But what happened leading up to this, those facts are incredibly important.”
“At 10:25 a.m. Central time on Wednesday, January 7, what happened was this individual had been impeding and blocking in our eyes, law enforcement officers,” she explained. “She had been doing that throughout the day, obstructing lawful operations, which is a felony. At one point, our ICE law enforcement officers approached her vehicle and said to get out of the car, she was going to be under arrest, and they commanded her to stop obstructing operations. That&#8217;s when she would not obey those lawful commands. And that&#8217;s when we see in the video, the law enforcement officer is in front of her. She hits the gas, and he was in fear of his own life and he was in fear for the law enforcement who were around him. She weaponized her vehicle she used as a deadly weapon on an officer. He responded as his training instructs him to do. And unfortunately, there was a loss of life here. But our officer conducted himself in the way he should have. And he did save his own life.”
I asked her what her reaction was to major Democrats comparing ICE to the Gestapo, suggesting that we are living now under the predations of a police state, and vowing that they were going to try to impede ICE operations themselves.
“They&#8217;re clearly legally illiterate, because ICE, CBP, and other DHS law enforcement are conducting these operations with the law behind them,” she answered. “If people don&#8217;t like ICE enforcing the rule of law — which is what our men and women are doing every single day — these politicians should change the law. They can lobby Congress to change the law.”
“But continuing to demonize and vilify our law enforcement, you&#8217;re going to see more incidents like this because people who are either brainwashed or lunatics are going to take matters into their own hands,” she predicted. “We&#8217;ve already seen these vehicles be routinely and perpetually weaponized against our law enforcement. We have a 1,000% increase in assaults against law enforcement. Just last week alone, we had ten of these vehicle rammings. These vehicles are deadly weapons. And one of our law enforcement officers could easily end up killed if we don&#8217;t see a stop to this.”
“As far as the political nature of this for the Democrats, Minneapolis has been a flashpoint because of the massive amount of fraud that we&#8217;ve seen and that Homeland Security Investigations are investigating,” McLaughlin said. “And so I think that there is a part of this where they&#8217;re trying to circle the wagons and really use this as a smokescreen so people stop talking about the fraud.”
Something left unnoticed is that the number of deportations from red states often outnumbers the number of deportations from blue states. The difference is that the blue state governors and sanctuary city mayors are trying to obstruct operations in these blue areas.
In red states, as they cooperate with ICE, these operations tend to go off pretty easily without a hitch. And then the deportations are actually pretty sizable. So it is not as though the Trump administration is only targeting blue areas of blue states. A huge number of deportations are happening in red states and red areas now.
But the rhetoric of the Left ignores that. They are intent on using whatever they can to target the Trump administration, and if it means vilifying the men and women of law enforcement, they are only too happy to do so.

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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will cut funding to sanctuary cities on the first day of February, saying that these cities are breeding &#8220;fraud and crime.&#8221;
“Starting February 1, we&#8217;re not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens,&#8221; the president vowed on Tuesday afternoon, adding, &#8220;and it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come.”
Trump was referring to cities across the United States that have declared themselves &#8220;sanctuary cities&#8221; for illegal immigrants, cities that often attempt to buck the president&#8217;s immigration enforcement activities.
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The president also slammed state officials in Minnesota over the fraud recently uncovered throughout the state, notably publicized by independent YouTuber Nick Shirley, whose viral work reached the eyes of the president and vice president. Trump accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of corruption, saying that such fraud could not have escaped Walz&#8217;s notice.
&#8220;We have also suspended payments tied to suspected scammers in Minnesota, of which there are many,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;It’s a great state. It was a great state. Now it’s getting destroyed by that stupid governor.&#8221;
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Starting February 1st, we&#8217;re not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens and it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems… <a href="https://t.co/FyMYGilLtp">pic.twitter.com/FyMYGilLtp</a>
— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/2011168853095825912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2026</a></blockquote>
Trump was speaking Tuesday afternoon in Detroit, Michigan, at the Detroit Economic Club, where he delivered a speech largely focused on his administration&#8217;s wins over the past year, particularly as they pertain to the United States economy.
In December, the Department of Health and Human Services <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-freezes-all-child-care-payments-to-minnesota-amid-daycare-fraud-scandal?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Freezes+%E2%80%98All+Child+Care+Payments%E2%80%99+To+Minnesota+Amid+Daycare+Fraud+Scandal">announced</a> it had frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota amid news of the massive fraud scandal in the state. That news came after a federal prosecutor said that there has been at least $9 billion in fraud in the state under Walz’s watch.
On Tuesday, Trump addressed the topic, saying that his administration &#8220;will now require proof of attendance in order to receive federal funding for childcare.&#8221;
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PRES. TRUMP: &#8220;We will now require proof of attendance in order to receive federal funding for childcare.&#8221;
&#8220;Also, we&#8217;re freezing any and all welfare payments going to illegal immigrants, effective immediately.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/lRD4VCmctu">pic.twitter.com/lRD4VCmctu</a>
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&#8220;Also, we&#8217;re freezing any and all welfare payments going to illegal immigrants, effective immediately,&#8221; he noted.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minnesota-is-currently-paying-an-indicted-somali-fraudster-to-run-assisted-living-homes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported in December</a> that the Minnesota government was still paying an accused Somali fraudster to run assisted living homes as that man awaited trial for his alleged role in the nation’s largest COVID scam, in which he ran a fraudulent charity.
Walz has said he will not run for reelection but has not said he will resign from his position as governor.

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Santa&#8217;s naughty list this year includes several sanctuary cities and states that allowed illegal immigrant criminals to roam their streets, many of whom went on to commit more egregious crimes.
Sanctuary cities and states adopt policies that prevent local police from notifying federal immigration authorities about the looming release of illegal immigrants from local jails. They also bar federal authorities from entering jails to interview illegal immigrant suspects.
The Trump administration has sued several sanctuary jurisdictions, including Minnesota, New York City, Boston, Illinois, and Los Angeles, over the policies.
These are some of the worst offenders.
<h4>New York City</h4>
Since President Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration, local police in New York City released roughly 7,000 illegal immigrants from local jails without honoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement&#8217;s detainer requests to have them placed into federal custody, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
They account for nine homicides, 2,509 assaults, 199 burglaries, 305 robberies, 392 dangerous drugs offenses, 300 weapons offenses, and 207 sexual predatory offenses.
Mario Bustamante-Leiva, 49, the Chilean illegal immigrant accused of snatching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem&#8217;s purse in Washington, D.C., in April, was arrested in New York for a similar crime just a few weeks earlier — but they let him go with a desk appearance ticket and a court date, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/us-news/illegal-migrant-accused-in-kristi-noems-purse-snatching-had-ny-arrest-warrant-out/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post.
He never showed up to that scheduled court date and bounced over to the nation&#8217;s capital to allegedly purse snatch the cabinet official.
In a separate example of the sanctuary&#8217;s consequences, the two Dominican illegal immigrants accused in the shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer in New York City in July both had rap sheets.
One of them, Christhian Aybar-Berroa, 22, was arrested by the NYPD eight times and released each time prior to the attack, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-news/illegal-migrant-arrested-in-nyc-shooting-of-off-duty-cpb-agent-was-free-despite-long-rap-sheet-and-suspected-in-scooter-robbery-spree-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post. He also had a deportation order from January 2023.
Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, 21, also racked up several arrests in New York City, including for allegedly assaulting a pregnant woman and threatening to kill a fellow migrant with a machete, according to the New York Post.
He was also wanted on kidnapping and weapons charges out of Massachusetts, the outlet previously reported.
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<h4>Illinois</h4>
Authorities in Illinois have released more than 1,700 criminal illegal immigrants with ICE detainer requests from local jails since Inauguration Day, according to DHS.
The Trump administration commenced &#8220;Operation Midway Blitz&#8221; in September to target the sanctuary city of Chicago and arrest illegal immigrants released by local authorities.
ICE has current detainers lodged against roughly 4,000 illegal immigrants in state custody, according to DHS.
Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to the federal operation by creating &#8220;ICE-free zones&#8221; across the Windy City.
In October, local police were reportedly told to stand down from assisting Border Patrol agents, who “were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars” in Broadview, Illinois, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin <a href="https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1974524869892276682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X at the time.
Agents determined that one of the alleged attackers was &#8220;armed with a semi-automatic weapon,&#8221; forcing them to “fire defensive shots at an unarmed U.S. citizen,” according to McLaughlin.
<h4>Minnesota</h4>
When ICE descended on Minneapolis earlier this month, leaders in the sanctuary state were quick to side with illegal immigrants roaming the state.
Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded to the increased presence of federal immigration authorities by pledging to continue to refuse cooperation with ICE.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says he will not allow police officers to cooperate with ICE to get criminal illegal aliens off the streets.
FREY: “Officers will not coordinate with any federal agency that is doing immigration law enforcement work.” <a href="https://t.co/zNLosBiKYw">pic.twitter.com/zNLosBiKYw</a>
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Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who has likened ICE to “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo,” condemned the agency&#8217;s actions in his state.
The federal operation resulted in roughly 400 arrests of illegal immigrants.
Somali immigrant Abdimahat Bille Mohamed was let go as part of a plea agreement in two sexual assault cases earlier this year before he went on to allegedly rape a child and multiple adult women before allegedly kidnapping a woman and raping her, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/serial-kidnapper-and-rapist-charged-federally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Justice, which has since charged him federally.
“This Somali national in Minnesota is charged with raping a minor and multiple adult women before being detained — only to be quickly released by a local court, after which he committed yet another rape. This horrific case illustrates how left-wing soft-on-crime policies and vetting failures put innocent people at dire risk. If Minnesota will not protect its own people, the Department of Justice will do it for them,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said of the case earlier this month.
<h4>Fairfax County, Virginia</h4>
Authorities in Fairfax County, Virginia, released Salvadoran migrant Marvin Morales-Ortez, 23, who allegedly went on to murder a man less than 24 hours later.
Morales-Ortez allegedly fatally shot a man inside his Reston, Virginia, home after he was released from a local jail by authorities who ignored a federal immigration detainer to hand him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to multiple reports.
Morales-Ortez crossed the southern border illegally in 2016, federal law enforcement sources recently told The Daily Wire.
An immigration judge dismissed his deportation case in 2022, effectively allowing him to stay in the country without any legal status, sources said.
He was also tagged as a suspected member of the violent MS-13 gang, according to ABC7.
Morales-Ortez had a lengthy rap sheet before committing his latest alleged crime.
In 2021, he was charged with first-degree murder, according to ABC7. He spent a year and a half in jail while awaiting trial, but was ultimately released after the authorities dropped the charges following a determination that someone else was to blame.
Morales-Ortez was found guilty of a previous theft case and fined $300, which he never paid, according to ABC7.
The illegal immigrant was charged for allegedly brandishing a gun and assaulting and injuring someone before he was released by sanctuary authorities this latest time, the local outlet reported.
The Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office dropped the case, leading to his release.
After a lengthy manhunt, authorities rearrested him.
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Fairfax County has notoriously operated as a sanctuary jurisdiction, routinely releasing illegal immigrants from jail without notifying ICE, <a href="https://cis.org/Map-Sanctuary-Cities-Counties-and-States" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Center for Immigration Studies.
&#8220;The sanctuary politicians of Fairfax County, VA have blood on their hands,&#8221; DHS said in response to the county&#8217;s handling of the latest illegal immigrant crime.
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Sanctuary authorities in Virginia released an illegal immigrant from jail who went on to murder a man less than 24 hours later.
Salvadoran migrant Marvin Morales-Ortez, 23, allegedly fatally shot a man inside his Reston, Virginia, home Wednesday after authorities in Fairfax County released him from jail and ignored a federal immigration detainer to hand him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to multiple reports.
Federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire that Morales-Ortez crossed the southern border illegally in 2016. At the time, Border Patrol agents were preparing to deport him and his mother.
However, the two claimed they had a fear of returning to their home country. In 2022, an immigration judge dismissed his deportation case altogether, effectively allowing him to stay in the country without any legal status, sources said.
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NEW: Soros DA Freed Killer YESTERDAY 
Dec 16th: Fairfax Soros DA Steve Descano dropped ALL Charges vs. Marvin Fernando Morales-Ortez (illegal?) including attempt murder/gun 
[September 12th Gun Assault] 
&gt;Malicious Wounding w/ Injury &#8212; Dropped (Nolle Pros) 
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He has also been tagged as a suspected member of the violent MS-13 gang, according to ABC7.
Morales-Ortez popped back up on authorities&#8217; radar six other times starting in 2019 for a slew of alleged crimes ranging from murder to assault, according to ABC7.
He was charged with first-degree murder in 2021 and spent a year and a half behind bars while awaiting trial, according to ABC7. The charges against him were ultimately dropped after authorities determined that he wasn&#8217;t involved.
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Another individual was ultimately convicted.
Morales-Ortez was found guilty for a previous theft case, where he was fined $300, according to ABC7. He never paid the fine.
Before he was released this latest time, Morales-Ortez was charged for allegedly brandishing a gun and assaulting and injuring someone, the local outlet reported.
He was set free after the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office dropped the case.
&#8220;Prosecutors were unable to move forward with the case because the victim told police that they were out of the country and would not be coming to court to cooperate in proceedings. Sadly, without the victim’s necessary testimony, we could not move forward with the case,&#8221; the attorney&#8217;s office said.
The Fairfax County Police Department said they subsequently obtained an emergency order to take the illegal immigrant back into custody, but failed to find him within the allowed time window. Authorities eventually nabbed him after a lengthy manhunt.
&#8220;After his release, a Community Services Board (CSB) clinician obtained an Emergency Custody Order (ECO) for Morales-Ortez. An ECO is valid for eight hours after issuance by a magistrate,&#8221; the police department wrote on X.
&#8220;FCPD Reston District patrol officers were then dispatched to serve the ECO and take Morales-Ortez into custody. FCPD patrol officers responded to the address of record for Morales-Ortez and did not locate him at his residence. The ECO expired shortly thereafter.&#8221;
Fairfax County has notoriously operated as a sanctuary jurisdiction, routinely releasing illegal immigrants from jail without notifying ICE, <a href="https://cis.org/Map-Sanctuary-Cities-Counties-and-States" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Center for Immigration Studies.

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A mother is speaking out after learning that the alleged sex offender who preyed upon her 13-year-old daughter was an illegal immigrant set free by local authorities who chose not to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Trump administration recently brought the case to light after launching mass deportation raids in Charlotte. While exposing local authorities for setting illegal immigrants free, the Department of Homeland Security highlighted the case of Costa Rican illegal immigrant Jordan Renato Castillo-Chavez, 29, as one out of roughly 1,400 cases in Charlotte where local cops refused to honor federal immigration detainers.
&#8220;It&#8217;s hurtful that my child is a victim and they had this person and let him go,&#8221; the victim&#8217;s mother, Misha Rose, whose own father was deported from the United States after committing a crime, told WSOC.
&#8220;This is serious &#8230; we need justice, he needs to go,&#8221; she said as she fought back tears.
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Jordan Renato Castillo-Chavez was released after North Carolina authorities failed to honor the ICE detainer.
Castillo-Chavez, a criminal illegal alien from Costa Rica, was arrested for indecent liberties with child, first degree sexual exploitation of a minor, attempted… <a href="https://t.co/mVl6VSw73W">pic.twitter.com/mVl6VSw73W</a>
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Pineville police charged Castillo-Chavez in March with indecent liberties and other sex offenses after he allegedly began messaging the young victim online. But he later bonded out of custody.
&#8220;There was this message from this guy, and I was like, &#8216;Who is this?&#8217; and she was like, &#8216;Oh, that&#8217;s my friend, I just met him online.&#8217; And I looked at the messages, there were photos, there were messages that indicated he was like coming to pick her up, and I immediately just like dropped, like I fainted, like this is not happening right now,&#8221; Rose recalled.
The Department of Homeland Security said local authorities failed to honor their detainer request to hand over the illegal immigrant if he was to be released.
The Mecklenburg County sheriff&#8217;s office, however, claims that ICE made a request for advanced notice of Castillo-Chavez&#8217;s release, but never issued a formal detainer, according to WSOC. The sheriff&#8217;s office said they never notified federal immigration agents because there was no legal requirement in place.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues its deployment of Border Patrol agents to Charlotte to clean up the mess created by sanctuary policies. The feds have already made over 200 arrests since the operation began over the weekend.
&#8220;Americans should be able to live without fear of violent criminal illegal aliens hurting them, their families, or their neighbors,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said recently of the operation.
“There have been too many victims of criminal illegal aliens. President Trump and Secretary Noem will step up to protect Americans when sanctuary politicians won’t,&#8221; she said.
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