The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly arrested 7,000 illegal immigrants with alleged ties to gangs during the first year of President Donald Trump‘s second of two non-consecutive terms in office, the New York Post reports.
The reported total comes amid the administration’s focus on stricter immigration policies, including mass deportations and the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers patrolling in major U.S. cities.
“When we say we are targeting the worst of the worst, this is what exactly we mean,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Many of these were let in by [former President] Joe Biden and should have never been in this country. These vicious criminals murdered, assaulted, robbed, and terrorized innocent Americans for sport. But under President Trump’s and Secretary [Kristi] Noem’s leadership, ICE is turbocharged to arrest even more gang members and make America safe again.”
ICE agents have reportedly arrested members alleged to have ties to more than a dozen gangs including the Crips, Bloods, Norentos, MS-13, Tren de Aragua, Asian Boys, Trinitarios and Latin Kings, according to the New York Post. The mass deportations and nationwide presence of ICE has led to mass protests with Trump threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act against Minnesota as even more protests followed the shooting death of Renee Good by an ICE officer.
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