The agents of the Immigration Service and Customs Control from the United States (ICE for its acronym in English) arrested eight people in one of the first raids anti-immigrant protests in Boston, Massachusetts, including that of a Dominican who was facing heroin trafficking charges.
The news network Fox News reported the arrest of Dominicanwhich was part of an operation by ICE Boston on Thursday, along with that of “a volatile Haitian gang member” with 18 convictions in recent years and members of the MS-13 gang suspected of murder and rape.
The conservative portal accompanied the agents as a witness to the raids resumed in the new administration trumpwhich as of this Friday totals 538 arrests.
During this operation, “collateral arrests“, which are those in which a illegal alien which was not the initial objective, the tsar of the border of trumpTom Homan warned that this type of arrest could happen in sanctuary jurisdictions.
- The sanctuary jurisdictions are those cities that implement state policies to limit their collaboration with federal immigration authorities, avoiding raids and deportations.
According to the images shared by Foxthe agents began the raid in Boston in the early morning hours, in the cold, heading into residential areas behind undocumented immigrants accused of committing serious crimes.
Since the beginning of the raidswho today celebrate their fourth day, nationals of the Dominican Republic have been included in those detained, along with citizens of AfghanistanAngola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.
Some of those arrested
The White House shared on Thursday night some names of those arrested by the ICEamong them Pedro Julio Mejíacaptured in Buffalo, New York. Mejía, a Dominican citizen, was found guilty of sexual conduct against a minor, according to a tweet shared by the government house when reporting the results of Thursday’s anti-immigrant day.
The NBC news portal also reported on the arrests of Dominican citizens Luis Molina Rivas, Rubén Castillo Medina, Jerinson Guzmán David and Richard Barranca Dislato whom the ICE San Juan confiscated 128 kilograms, or approximately 282 pounds, of cocaine from them.
“This is simply a small preview of the work the Trump administration is doing to secure our nation’s borders,” read the White House statement on the report. ICE on Thursday.
The “return through Mexico”
Since mid-2022, a large group of Dominicans have entered the United States through the border with Mexico after arriving in countries in South and Central America that do not require a visa to begin an irregular migratory route to the north popularly known as “The Return.” for Mexico.”
- Between March 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023, the Customs Office and Border Protection (CBP) had contact with 47,273 Dominicans along the southwestern border of the United States.
- The American authorities They deported more than seven thousand Dominicans between 2023 and 2024, with irregular migration being the main reason for deportation. In addition, more than three thousand Dominicans decided to voluntarily return from Orlando, Florida, and New York in the last two years after entering the United States irregularly.
trumpwho was president from 2017 to 2021, made the fight against illegal immigration his workhorse during the campaign for the November 2024 elections.
His promise to do deportations massive as soon as he set foot in the White House again was reflected in the first decrees he signed, as well as that of closing the border with Mexico.
