By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-30 07:31:48 | Updated at 2025-01-30 18:46:40
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Donald Trump's order to conduct the largest deportation in history is off to a quick start as authorities are now arresting over a thousand illegal migrants per day.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been working at a break-neck pace since the president was sworn in nine days ago and deportation flights have been taking off daily ever since.
In the president's first nine days they have arrested over 7,500 aliens, a senior Trump administration official revealed to DailyMail.com.
Nationwide on Tuesday ICE made 1,016 arrests, many of whom were violent criminals charged with a slew of charges from child pornography to attempted murder. Among these were at least 16 Tren de Aragua members, the official shared.
Images of their arrests and descriptions of their rap sheets shared exclusively with DailyMail.com reveal uniquely chilling charges and photos of some criminals apprehended in the last 24 hours.
Their charges include child pornography, child solicitation, child abuse, attempted murder, negligent homicide, drug distribution and aggravated assault and more.
In that lot was a deadly MS-13 cartel members and several other gang members and predators that lived in major sanctuary cities from Chicago, New Orleans, San Diego and elsewhere.
The pictures of 10 alien criminals arrested by ICE on Tuesday. In total, ICE caught 1,016 illegal migrants that day
Criminal Arrest of Honduran National in Possession of Firearm On January 28, 2025, ICE Detroit/Cincinnati criminally arrested a Honduran national illegally present in the U.S., during a controlled substance investigation that was unlawfully in possession of a firearm equipped with a suppressor
ICE lodged a detainer, and the subject will remain in ICE custody pending criminal prosecution for criminal charges related to firearm and narcotics possession
Though Trump noted Wednesday evening that he is still not satisfied with the number of daily alien arrests.
He said he wants the daily number to be around 1,800 per day and rising.
ICE, which falls under Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's purview, appears poised to ramp up operations.
And the idea is popular, a majority of Americans support deporting immigrants in the country illegally. That support rises even further if the illegal migrant has a criminal record.
Border Czar Tom Homan has also indicated he plans on scaling up deportation efforts too, which have been assisted with U.S. military planes provided by Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth.
Among those arrested Tuesday was a Mexican national charged in New York for attempted murder, assault and possession of a weapon.
ICE Detroit/Cincinnati arrested a Honduran national with a firearm that had a sight and a suppressor. The agents filed a detainer and the suspect remains in custody.
Nearby in Columbus, Ohio, ICE arrested a twice deported El Salvadorian man that is known to be a local leader of the notorious MS-13 cartel and is now being prosecuted.
Tango Blast Gang member on January 28, 2025. ICE Houston arrested Marcelino Flores-Betancourt a citizen of Mexico. Betancourt is a confirmed member of the Tango Blast Gang. Flores-Betancourt has numerous previous criminal convictions including Aggravated Assault and Deadly Conduct. ICE Houston issued an I-871, Notice of Intent/Decision to Reinstate Prior Order of Removal. FLORES-Betancourt is detained at the Montgomery Processing Center in Conroe, TX pending his removal to Mexico
ICE Columbus criminally arrested a subject a twice previously deported citizen and national of El Salvador. The subject is known as an emerging new leader of MS-13 in Columbus, Ohio. The USAO in the Southern District of Ohio has accepted the subject for criminal prosecution of Unlawful Re-Entry
ICE New Orleans arrested Heidy Carolina Ortiz-Bonilla, a citizen of Guatemala. Ortiz has been convicted of child abuse and sentenced to 24 months' probation. She has been convicted of re-entry of a previously removed alien on two occasions and sentenced to 36 months and 30 months incarceration
Hyun Woo, a South Korean citizen, was arrested after being convicted of nine counts of child pornography possession.
In Chicago ICE arrested Guatemalan Alexander Pascual-Pedro who was convicted previously of solicitation to meet a child.
Democrats, meanwhile, decry the deportation push as damaging.
'I'm aware of reports of the illegal detainment of American citizens by ICE in Milwaukee. This is what Trump wants — to sow fear amongst communities who have certain names, certain complexions or speak certain languages,' Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) posted on X.
New Mexico Democrat Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández wrote 'ICE agents are harassing and threatening Native Americans.'
'Trump said you can tell bad immigrants by what they 'look' like. Tribal members look like the first Americans. Stop harassing them,' she wrote online.
ICE Atlanta arrested Hyun Woo IM, a citizen of South Korea. IM has been convicted of nine (9) counts of possession or control of any material depicting minor of sexually explicit conduct. IM was sentenced to five (5) years in jail and 20 years' probation
ICE New Orleans arrested Mateo TORRES-Morales, a citizen of Guatemala. TORRES has been convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to 16 months confinement
ICE Philadelphia arrested Jose Ortega Ramirez, a citizen of Mexico. Ortega has been convicted of possession with intent to distribute and aid and abet another or others in possessing with intent to distribute a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine and possession of child pornography and sentenced to 90 months incarceration
But Trump doubled-down further Wednesday announcing the reopening of a 30,000 bed facility in Guantanamo Bay to be used for migrant housing.
'Today, I’m also signing an Executive Order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,' Trump said at a White House ceremony.
Trump added: 'We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back.
'So we're going to send them out to Guantanamo Bay. This will double our capacity immediately, and tough. That's a tough - that's a tough place to get out of.'
The George W. Bush administration opened the facility in 2002 to detain 'illegal enemy combatants' during the 'War on Terror.'
Ultimately, successive administrations have negotiated a series of arrangements to transfer prisoners out of the facility since then, amid public and congressional pressure to close it.
