First on Fox: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)In the early days of the Trump administration, it arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants, including those with criminal histories that included sexual assault, domestic violence, drug and weapons offenses.
Information obtained by Fox News Digital shows that between midnight on January 21 and 9 a.m. on January 22, a 33-hour period, ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 460 aliens, including criminal history of assault. Sexual, theft, burglary and aggravated crimes. Assault, drug and weapons offenses, resisting arrest and domestic violence.
Agents arrested citizens from a large number of countries including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.
The arrests occurred across the United States including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida and Maryland.
On January 22, 2025, ICE-ERO News York arrested Camaro Denver Hay, a Jamaican national. Hay was previously arrested by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) on 10/12/2024 for “promoting a sexual performance to a child under 17 years of age and possession of a sexual performance by a child under 16 years of age: possession/access to ‘view’.” (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Meanwhile, ICE has released more than 420 detainees – Ice asks You are notified when a citizen is released from custody. Citizens were arrested for crimes including murder, sexual assault, kidnapping, battery and theft.
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Arrests include:
-Mexican citizen Jesus Perez was arrested in Salt Lake City on charges of sexually assaulting a child.
On January 22, 2025, ICE-ERO Chicago arrested Adan Pablo Ramirez, an inadmissible Mexican national who was convicted of driving under the influence. (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Honduran citizen, Franklin Osorto Cruz, was convicted of driving while intoxicated. He was arrested in New York.
– A Jamaican national, Camaro Denver High, was arrested on charges of “promoting a sexual performance to a child under 17 years of age and possession of a sexual performance by a child under 16 years of age: possession/possibility of viewing.”
– Mexican citizen, Jesús Baltazar Mendoza, was convicted of second-degree assault on a child. He was arrested in St. Paul.
– Colombian citizen Andres Urjuela Parra, who was arrested in San Francisco. He has a conviction for sexual penetration with a foreign object on an unaware victim.
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– Six undocumented immigrants in Miami from Guatemala, with criminal histories including battery, child abuse, fraud, resisting arrest, digital ID, trespassing, and vandalism.
Meanwhile, Fox News' Bill Melogen was on the ground in Boston, Where agents Several MS-13 gang members, Interpol Red Notices, and murder and rape suspects were arrested.
The arrests come as the Trump administration moves quickly to make good on its promise to launch a historic mass deportation operation, which it said will focus primarily — but not exclusively — on public safety threats.
On January 22, 2025, ICE-ERO in New York City arrested Jose Roberto Rodriguez Urbina, a 22-year-old citizen of El Salvador. Rodriguez is an alleged member of the MS13 gang and is also the subject of an Interpol Red Notice from El Salvador for extortion. (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
This week, the administration took a slew of moves to make that happen, including a barrage of executive orders issued by President Trump and subsequent moves by his Cabinet agencies.
Fox News reported on Wednesday that Department of Homeland Security It removed limits on expedited removal powers, a day after rescinding a Biden-era memo restricting where ICE can conduct enforcement operations.
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ICE-ERO in San Francisco arrested Daniel Andres Urjuela Parra (right), a Colombian national illegally in the United States. Urjuela was convicted of sexual penetration with a foreign object on an unaware victim and sentenced to 3 years in prison. (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
“The teams are in place as of today.” Homan said In America's Newsroom on Tuesday. “We've given them directions to prioritize the public safety threats we're looking for. We've been working on preparing a target list.”
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“Right out of the gate there are threats to public safety, those who are in the country illegally and those who have been convicted and arrested for serious crimes,” he said. “But let me be clear. It's not just public safety threats that will get arrested, because in sanctuary cities, we're not allowed to have a public safety threat in jail, which means we have to go into the neighborhood and find him.”
Fox News' Sophia Compton contributed to this report.
