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Trump Ramps Up ICE Arrests, Alarming Cities And Immigrant Communities

A Mexican National Migration Institute van transporting migrants deported from the United States leaves the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on Jan. 22. (Jorge Duenes/Reuters)

The Trump administration circulated photos Friday showing U.S. troops loading shackled detainees onto a military cargo plane, as the White House declared a start to the mass deportation campaign the president promised along the campaign trail.

The White House said immigration agents have arrested 538 undocumented immigrantswith criminal records and deported “hundreds” more. Those numbers, if accurate, would berelatively modest for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement surge operations — a possible indication that the Trump administration’s show of force has so far outpaced the government’s capacity to deliver on the president’s lofty goals.

But Trump’s border czar Tom Homan cited a higher number than the White House on NewsNation on Thursday night, saying officials had arrested more than 3,000 people with criminal records in the first couple days of the administration. ICE, which detains and deports immigrants, did not respond to requests to clarify the numbers.

Trump and his officials provided few details about those arrests or proof of their criminal records. Trump has long characterized immigrants as criminals, though studies show that native-born Americans commit a higher share of violent felonies.

“It’s going very well. We’re getting the bad, hard criminals out,” Trump said, speaking to reporters during a trip to North Carolina to view the flood recovery from Hurricane Helene.

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