US Customs and Immigration Enforcement reported that they apprehended 84 people in North Texas on Sunday.
Numerous locations, including Dallas, Fort Worth, Irving, and parts of Collin County, witnessed the arrests. The agency stated that it is part of an ongoing endeavor.
The Houston Drug Enforcement Administration says it helped ICE officers with “enhanced targeted operations,” and Gov. Greg Abbott said the Texas Department of Public Safety is also helping.
As soon as he took office, Trump pledged to initiate a massive crackdown on illegal immigration, leading the largest deportation campaign in American history. Just hours after his inauguration, the Trump administration reversed a Biden-era regulation that prevented U.S. immigration officials from making arrests at or near schools, places of worship, and other “sensitive locations.”
The White House announced Thursday that hundreds of “illegal immigrant criminals” in the United States had been detained and taken out of the country on military aircraft.
White House “border czar” Tom Homan promised to restore large-scale immigration arrests at workplaces that hire illegal immigrants, a practice that was suspended by the Biden administration.
Homan has stated that the administration will prioritize arresting unauthorized immigrants with criminal records and that no one who is in the country illegally will be spared from immigration enforcement. Homan stated that ICE agents may make “collateral arrests” if they discover unauthorized immigrants who are not criminals during operations.