Fox News reporters embedded with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) witnessed a dramatic series of arrests in Boston on Wednesday, where violent illegal immigrant criminals vowed to resist arrest. Video footage from raids in East Boston’s Hispanic community showed MS-13 gang members, convicted murderers, and individuals wanted internationally by Interpol being detained.
As one man, who had 17 prior criminal convictions, was handcuffed and placed into an ICE vehicle, he shouted that he was “never going back to Haiti.” One Haitian man bellowed into the Fox camera: “F*** Trump, you feel me? Yo, Biden forever, bro! Thank Obama for everything that he did for me, bro!”
ICE agents were constantly moving from one location to another, capturing individuals on their list of targets. One of those targets was an illegal immigrant man from Brazil, who had an Interpol Red Notice for armed robbery. Meanwhile, a third Salvadoran illegal migrant faced local charges for rape but was released due to the sanctuary city policies that are common in Massachusetts, particularly in cities like Boston.
Throughout the day, additional arrests highlighted the alarming reality that some of America’s most dangerous criminals are permitted to roam the streets of major cities due to local officials’ refusal to cooperate with their arrest and deportation. In one instance, a Dominican man charged with heroin trafficking and assault with a deadly weapon was the fourth individual apprehended by ICE’s Boston team that day. Check out the video below.
It’s happening: ICE under Trump now conducting mass arrests of criminal aliens and nabbing a few who are also in the country illegally at the same time.
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MS-13, a large gang in El Salvador whose members are spread out across the U.S., has rapidly expanded across the country in recent years due to an influx of gang members from that country and Guatemala. On Wednesday, ICE officers arrested a member of MS-13 in East Boston who was wanted on gun charges. This individual had been released by local authorities just one day earlier and was living among law-abiding residents. One of these residents expressed gratitude by shouting “thank you” to the officers as they loaded the suspect into their SUV.
Patricia Hyde, the acting director of Boston’s ICE field office, explained that the recent raid led to the arrest of another undocumented immigrant who was living with an MS-13 gang member, although this individual was not affiliated with the gang. She noted that this “collateral” arrest reflects the Trump administration’s strong commitment to a zero-tolerance policy.
“When we went to go find [the gang member], he was with somebody else who was previously removed from the United States,” she told Fox. “So he’s gonna go today, too.” She added: “Today was a good day. Today we took several significant public safety threats out of our communities. Unfortunately, a lot were released by sanctuary city policies. But we’re here to tell the Commonwealth and the rest of the country that we’re gonna find them whether they’re released or not.”
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