Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested close to 500 illegal immigrants accused of violent crimes in a period of 33 hours.
Between midnight on 21 January and 9am on 22 January, ICE arrested 460 illegal immigrants accused of a variety of violent crimes ranging from sexual assault to burglary, robbery and domestic violence.
“Agents arrested nationals from a slew of countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela,” according to a report obtained by Fox News Digital.
“Arrests took place across the U.S. including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida and Maryland.”
Detainees include Jesus Perez, a Mexican arrested in Salt Lake City for aggravated sexual abuse of a child; Jesus Baltazar Mendoza, who was arrested in St Paul for second degree assault of a child; and Colombian Andres Orjuela Parra, who was arrested in San Francisco for sexual assault.
Multiple members of the violent gang MS-13 have also been arrested.
“Right out of the gate it’s public safety threats, those who are in the country illegally that have been convicted, arrested for serious crime,” Tom Homan said, in an interview on Tuesday.
“But let me be clear. There’s not only public safety threats that will be arrested, because in sanctuary cities, we’re not allowed to get that public safety threat in the jail, which means we got to go to the neighborhood and find him.”
It’s being reported the Mexican government is building massive tent cities as it scrambles to respond to President Donald Trump’s new deportation policies.
The tents are being built in the city of Ciudad Juarez and are expected to be constructed by the end of the week. They will have the capacity to house thousands of returning Mexican nationals.
Authorities at the site will provide migrants with food, temporary housing, medical care, and assistance in obtaining identity documents.
The government will also have a fleet of buses at the ready to transport migrants back to their hometowns.
President Trump has promised the “largest mass deportation operation” in US history, claiming as many as 20 million illegals will have to be removed from the US.
On Monday, President Trump ended the program known as CBP One, which allowed migrants in Mexico to enter the US legally using a government app. On Tuesday, the Trump admin reinstated the so-called “Remain in Mexico” policy, under which non-Mexican migrants must wait in Mexico for their cases to be resolved.