US Arrests, Deports Over 500 ‘Illegal Immigrants’

His press secretary said late on Thursday that US authorities detained 538 illegal immigrants and deported hundreds during a massive operation just days into second-administrative president Donald Trump.

“The Trump Administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals”, Karoline Leavitt said in a post on social platform X, adding “hundreds” were deported by military aircraft.

The largest scale-scale deportation operation ever to occur is already in full swing. Promises made. Promises kept”, she said.

Trump launched a string of executive orders to overhaul the entry process to the United States after promising a crackdown on illegal immigration during the campaign.

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He has signed orders declaring a “national emergency” at the southern border, announced the deployment of additional troops, and pledged to deport “criminal aliens.”

Early on Thursday, Newark city mayor Ras J. Baraka said in a statement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “raided a local establishment… detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant”.

Earlier in the week the Republican-led US Congress green-lit a bill to expand pretrial incarceration for foreign criminal suspects.

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