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Federal agents launched a significant deportation operation in New York City early Tuesday, marking the first major immigration enforcement action in the city under President Trump’s intensified deportation initiatives.
The DEA confirmed its collaboration with the Department of Justice and other federal agencies Tuesday morning, providing photographic evidence of the initial operations as they assisted DHS with immigration enforcement activities.
Since Trump took office, federal authorities have been conducting daily arrests of criminal migrants in sanctuary cities across the nation, operating under the supervision of border chief Thomas Homan.
Heavily armed federal agents are right now sweeping New York City, conducting deportation raids under Trumpβs crackdown on illegal immigration.
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The enforcement campaign has targeted multiple metropolitan areas, including Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, and New Orleans, as part of the administration’s efforts to remove law violators from the country.
During a recent ABC News appearance, Homan made it clear that any undocumented individual could face deportation.
“You’re going to see the numbers steadily increase, the number of arrests nationwide, as we open up the aperture,” he said. “Right now, it’s concentrating on public safety threats [and] national security threats. That’s a smaller population.
“So we’re going to do this on a priority [basis], that’s President Trump’s promise. But as that aperture opens, there’ll be more arrests nationwide.”
The administration has eliminated previous restrictions on immigration enforcement locations, removing prohibitions on conducting operations in churches, courthouses, and other locations traditionally considered safe havens for undocumented immigrants.
New York City is next on the list of "sanctuary cities" to be targeted by Trump's criminal alien raids, following Chicago. This move is part of the Trump administration's deportation efforts, which have been described as an "unprecedented whole-of-government approach".
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In response to the enforcement escalation, Mayor Eric Adams indicated last week that municipal authorities would work with ICE regarding criminal migrants, while still evaluating the administration’s new policy on enforcement in protected areas.
Adams has worked to calm concerns among immigrant communities worried about becoming targets of widespread enforcement operations.
According to an internal NYPD document obtained by The Post, local law enforcement has been instructed that while they may assist ICE with criminal investigations, they cannot participate in federal deportation activities, which are classified as civil matters under the city’s sanctuary designation.
ICE reported conducting 1,179 arrests and issuing 853 detainers on Monday, following 956 arrests and 554 detainers on Sunday, leading up to the New York City operation.
