Since President Trump took office, immigration and law enforcement teams in cities throughout the US have arrested thousands of individuals believed to be criminal undocumented immigrants. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that around 5,500 people have been detained for immigration-related offenses since last week.
Among the detained migrants are individuals accused of crimes such as child exploitation, belonging to gangs, suspected ties to terrorism, and other serious violent offenses. For example, a suspected member of the Tren de Aragua gang, associated with a violent incident in Colorado, traveled across the country only to be apprehended at an apartment building near a school in New York City.
Trump said on Wednesday he plans to send up to 30,000 illegal aliens who pose a threat to American public safety to Guantánamo Bay.
President Trump expressed concerns over the severity of some of these cases, stating that their home countries are not considered reliable to detain them. In response, he mentioned the possibility of transferring these individuals to the detention center in Guantánamo Bay.
The president’s first major piece of new legislation, the Laken Riley Act, is named for a young nursing student who was killed by an illegal immigrant in a broad daylight attack at a park near the University of Georgia in Athens. It mandates the detention and deportation of illegal alien criminals and allows states to sue if immigration laws are ignored.
While the FBI has been assisting in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegals, officials tell Fox News Digital that the bureau’s other important duties, such as protecting the public from terror threats, are not being neglected.
Trump named Driscoll, a former Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent who joined the FBI in 2007 and later joined its SWAT and hostage rescue teams, as acting director last week ahead of the confirmation hearing for his official nominee, Kash Patel, which kicked off Thursday on Capitol Hill.Â
Fox News’ Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
