President Donald Trump ran on the campaign promise of ‘the largest deportation effort since Eisenhower’. After his victory in the November election, his border czar Tom Homan made a promise of his own: that is, that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would start deporting illegal migrants from everywhere in the United States from the first day of the new Trump administration.
And it seems that the two men are delivering on their promises.
Not only that, but ICE personnel also let a camera crew from Fox News go along with them on their mission, so the general public got to see the action for themselves.
Homan has previously explained that ‘The priorities will focus on public safety threats, national security threats and fugitives, those who got due process at great taxpayer expense and the federal judge ordered them removed, but they didn’t leave, and they became a fugitive,’ as quoted by the New York Post. However, he has also consistently stressed that anyone who is in the United States illegally can be deported; and that he expects so-called ‘collateral arrests’. These are cases when ICE is targeting an illegal alien who is a national security threat, and in the process, they come across people who are not a priority, but still reside in the country without the proper paperwork. Such an arrest was caught on a tape by Fox News in their video reporting as well.
The ICE raid captured on camera took place in Boston, Massachusetts, a a liberal stronghold that has been operating as a ‘sanctuary city’. Sanctuary cities do not assist federal law enforcement in the removal of illegal aliens.
‘Boston doesn’t have to cooperate with ICE, but there’s nothing they can do to stop ICE from coming into their city and enforcing the law’, Fox News’ Bill Melugin explains.
‘And that’s exactly what happened yesterday, and that is the point ICE makes to us, which is “Look, they don’t have to cooperate with our detainer requests, they don’t have to tell our officers when they are releasing somebody from jail, but we are going to do our job, we have our intel guys out on the field, we have people with eyes all over the place, and we’re going to snatch those guys”. So they can make ICE’s job more difficult, longer, and more dangerous, but it’s not going to stop ICE from doing their job’.
Melugin also shared with the audience that ICE had arrested two more of their targets in Boston after the crew stopped filming: one illegal alien man from Honduras who had been arrested for raping a woman at gunpoint; and an illegal alien man from Haiti, who was allowed to stay in the US under the Biden administration’s mass parole programme, and who had been arrested for sexual assault.
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