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ICE makes staggering 11K illegal migrant arrests in just 18 days — forcing agency to take over four federal prisons
NY Post ^ | 2/07/25 | Jennie Taer

Posted on 02/07/2025 2:47:44 PM PST by Libloather

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested an astounding 11,000 illegal migrants in the first 18 days of the Trump administration – which is already a third of the total busts the agency made last year under former President Joe Biden, The Post has learned.

The arrests, part of President Trump’s mass deportation offensive, collared a previously deported Mexican cartel hitman, according to Department of Homeland Security sources.

ICE agents in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, nabbed Fernando Vasquez-Mendoza, who was identified as a hired killer working for Cartel del Golfo, or Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug trafficking organization and criminal syndicate.

It is unclear when Vasquez-Mendoza was previously deported or when he snuck back into the US.

The federal immigration authorities also arrested several members of the vicious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and multiple child sex offenders, according to sources.

One of the TdA gangbangers captured in New York, Cristian Jose Concepcion-Manrique, snuck across the border into El Paso in December and has a prior criminal conviction for assault.

ICE made 33,000 arrests last year in total, DHS sources said.

The staggering uptick in busts means ICE has had to scramble to find more space to detain the illegal migrants targeted by Trump’s major crackdown.

The agency was expected to open four detention facilities Friday operated by the Bureau of Prisons to expand bed space, a high-level ICE source told The Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrests; ice; illegal; migrant; winning
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Time to go home.
1 posted on 02/07/2025 2:47:44 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

They are easier to locate than I expected. Keep going!


2 posted on 02/07/2025 2:51:16 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: Libloather
Foolproof Ways To Avoid Getting Deported - Babylon Bee
3 posted on 02/07/2025 2:54:33 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Libloather

“We’re going to need a bigger boat.”


4 posted on 02/07/2025 2:55:12 PM PST by thescourged1 (Rush, is it time to panic yet? )
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To: Libloather

I’ve, Ice, Baby.
‘cause business is booming!


5 posted on 02/07/2025 2:57:04 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Libloather

It might be a good time to buy stocks in companies that contract to provide services at federal prisons.


6 posted on 02/07/2025 2:58:42 PM PST by CFW
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To: KittyKares

Obama/Biden gave them I phones.

Using the same tech that biden’s henchmen tracked down those who were in DC on January 6th.

Other side of the sword.


7 posted on 02/07/2025 2:58:46 PM PST by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: KittyKares
They are easier to locate than I expected. Keep going!

The rats have been bragging about where they’re sheltering them fir four years.

Hell, even Martha Raddatz knows where they’re sheltering are.

8 posted on 02/07/2025 2:59:38 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: HIDEK6

fir = fir
are = them


9 posted on 02/07/2025 3:01:35 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: HIDEK6

fir = for


10 posted on 02/07/2025 3:02:06 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Libloather

That’s quarter of a million per year....Want to see 10,000 a day!! Then we’re talking 3,650,000 a year. Possible?? Don’t know....probably not...


11 posted on 02/07/2025 3:02:52 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather

Illegal aliens are freeloaders and do not have “rights.”

Kick them out.


12 posted on 02/07/2025 3:06:56 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Sacajaweau

At that rate it will take 40 yrs to deport them all. Not near fast enough.Cutting off all bennies would help. No phone service, no free food, no medical care, no housing, and no jobs.


13 posted on 02/07/2025 3:08:23 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: HIDEK6
Well, fir does equal fir.

Just saying…

14 posted on 02/07/2025 3:15:28 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: DannyTN

Love it!


15 posted on 02/07/2025 3:16:12 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: KittyKares

“They are easier to locate than I expected. Keep going!”

All you have to do is go to Home Depot. It looks like Mexico City here in Longmont, Co.


16 posted on 02/07/2025 3:16:36 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Libloather

There are easily over 20,000,000 illegal aliens here.

We have to ramp up self deportations.

Not enough noise has been made about “Self deport by date X, and we won’t hold it against you. If we catch you after that date, you will never be allowed back in legally for any reason for 20 years.

That is apparently the law and this Administration’s policy, and we need more noise about it so they self-deport.


17 posted on 02/07/2025 3:17:06 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Nitzy: New and Improved! Now with only 66% anti-semitic posts!)
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To: oldasrocks

Absolutely!!!!!


18 posted on 02/07/2025 3:17:19 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: HIDEK6

fir = for

If i = o...


19 posted on 02/07/2025 3:18:00 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Libloather

Good start but staggering is not the adverb I would choose.

I’d use that for the 5000 average illegals that snuck in a DAY under creepy, sleepy Joe Biden for YEARS.


20 posted on 02/07/2025 3:20:48 PM PST by Phoenix8
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