U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announces nearly 1,000 arrests in one day

WASHINGTON DC. – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Sunday evening that they have made 956 arrests with 554 detainers lodged all in one day.

The announcement comes as reports of illegal immigrants with criminal records being arrested in major cities across the country including Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Newark, Denver, and Chicago.

ICE also made 286 arrests along with 421 detainers lodged on Saturday.

593 arrests and 449 detainers were lodged on Friday.

538 arrests and 379 detainers were lodged on Thursday.

The large sum of names of those arrested have not been released.

Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman issued two directives which allows ICE to carry out warrants on undocumented migrants in previous sensitive locations such as schools, hospitals, and places of worship. 

The first directive rescinds the Biden Administration’s guidelines for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) enforcement actions that thwart law enforcement in or near so-called “sensitive” areas. The second directive ends the broad abuse of humanitarian parole and returns the program to a case-by-case basis. ICE and CBP will phase out any parole programs that are not in accordance with the law. The following statement is attributable to a DHS Spokesperson:

“This action empowers the brave men and women in CBP and ICE to enforce our immigration laws and catch criminal aliens—including murders and rapists—who have illegally come into our country. Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest. The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense.

“The Biden-Harris Administration abused the humanitarian parole program to indiscriminately allow 1.5 million migrants to enter our country. This was all stopped on day one of the Trump Administration. This action will return the humanitarian parole program to its original purpose of looking at migrants on a case-by-case basis.”