308 Illegal Immigrants Arrested on President Trump’s First Day in Office

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly arrested 308 undocumented migrants on the first full day of President Donald Trump’s administration.

According to Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, the arrests included individuals charged with serious crimes such as murder and child rape.

Homan stated that immigration officers prioritized detaining undocumented migrants deemed threats to public safety, emphasizing that an estimated 700,000 such individuals remain in the United States.

CNN has reported that thousands of additional active-duty U.S. troops are being deployed to the southern border with Mexico following President Donald Trump’s directive to bolster military presence as part of his crackdown on illegal immigration.

On inauguration day, Trump issued an order on Monday instructing the military to increase its deployment along the border, which included declaring a national emergency to address what he called the ongoing crisis at the southern border.

Tom Homan stated that ICE officers have prepared a “target sheet” identifying illegal migrants with criminal records who are being prioritized for arrest and deportation.

“So, they’re out there right now looking for the most serious public safety threats and throughout the country, we’re putting them back to work,” Homan said of ICE.

In Boston, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported that ICE officers apprehended at least eight migrants, including a Haitian gang member with 18 prior arrests who shouted profanities against Trump as he was taken into custody.

Additionally, ICE detained an illegal migrant who was not initially targeted but was found in the company of an MS-13 gang member during the operation.

Sex offender Edward Marlon Rauda-Aldnada, 56, from El Salvador, was arrested in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, DC.

Jose Barco-Chirino, a Venezuelan national, was taken into ICE custody at Colorado State Prison in Canon City, Colorado, where he was serving a sentence for convictions including attempted murder, extreme indifference, and felony menacing with a weapon.

He will remain under ICE detention pending a decision in deportation proceedings by an immigration judge.

In Miami, ICE officers arrested six Guatemalan nationals residing illegally in Martin County, Florida. The individuals had extensive criminal records, including charges of battery, child abuse, fraud, resisting arrest, driving while intoxicated, trespassing, and vandalism.

They were detained as threats to public safety and for violating conditions of their release.

These arrests mark the beginning of the mass deportation initiative promised by President Donald Trump during his campaign, with oversight by newly appointed border czar Tom Homan.

The developments follow Trump’s signing of an executive order on Wednesday to deploy an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border. These forces will join the 2,200 active-duty troops and thousands of state National Guardsmen already stationed there.

“President Trump signed an executive order of 1,500 additional troops to the United States southern border. This comes off of his day one action… to direct the Department of Defense to make homeland security a core mission of the agency,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

“This is something President Trump campaigned on. The American people have been waiting for such a time as this, for our Department of Defense to actually take homeland security seriously. This is a number one priority of the American people and the president has already delivered.”