(NewsNation) — During his first week back in office, President Donald Trump’s administration carried out nationwide Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, with several operations taking place Sunday.
ICE raids in multiple major U.S. cities have led to the arrests of more than 1,300 criminal migrants, Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan told NewsNation on Thursday. On Friday, one arrest was a convicted murderer and 10 were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, NewsNation’s Ali Bradley reported.
Raids have taken place in major cities such as Boston, Denver, New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Miami, Washington, D.C., and Newark, N.J., according to media reports.
The number of arrests in the first three days of Trump’s presidency represents about 1.1% of total arrests made by ICE in FY 2024.
Here’s where raids have happened Sunday.
Chicago
Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city.
The DEA’s Chicago office posted pictures on X showing Bove and Homan with agents from ATF and Customs and Border Protection.
The operation comes just days after reports leaked of mass deportation raids planned in the Windy City.
Chicago and state officials, including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, have vowed to protect immigrant communities from mass deportations.
Denver
ICE tooki nearly 50 people into custody — including members of the Tren de Aragua gang — in an overnight raid at a “makeshift nightclub,” according to an X post from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Division.
The DEA, Homeland Security, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and “local partners” seized drugs, weapons and cash in the raid.
The raid was connected to a DEA drug trafficking investigation that began several months before President Donald Trump took office during the Biden Administration, a DEA official told NewsNation local affiliate KDVR reports.
Austin, Texas
A series of ICE raids were conducted in Austin on Sunday, DEA sources confirmed to NewsNation local affiliate KXAN.
“The raids are underway or have been done,” said Sally Sparks, a DEA Houston Division spokesperson, said in a phone call.
In an X post, the Houston DEA Division confirmed the DEA is working with Department of Justice partners, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal law enforcement partners with these efforts.
New Jersey
Paterson, N.J., Mayor Andre Sayegh told affiliate PIX11 that ICE agents are in the town.
“We are genuinely concerned. We are a welcoming city. Quite frankly, there has to be an appropriate procedure. If they have a warrant, we understand. If they don’t, people have to know their rights. As a matter of fact, I did get a report today that ICE was in Paterson, not too far from here,” said Mayor Sayegh.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said ICE agents raided a seafood store and detained three people on Thursday.
Los Angeles
An post from the Los Angeles DEA Division confirmed that the department “participated in an operation” on Sunday that supported the Justice Department, DHS and other federal law enforcement partners with their “#immigration enforcement efforts.”
NewsNation’s Safia Samee Ali, Damita Menezes and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
