Silver Spring, MD (AP) – A week in Donald Trump Second presidency And His efforts To download crack On illegal immigrationFederal Officers are working with a new sense of mission, knowing that “no one gets a free pass anymore.”
A dozen officers of immigration and Customs Enforcement gathered in a parking lot in Maryland on Monday before Monday, then found in Washington’s suburbs to find their targets: A person wanted for murder in El Salvador, A man of the armed robbery, found a refugee, found a refugee, who found a refugee, with children’s sexual abuse content and the other with drugs and gun punishment. Everyone was illegally in the country.
“The worst, first,” said Matt Elaston, director of the ICE’s Baltimore Field Office, said of the agency’s implementation priorities.
Associated Press With officersWho offered a glimpse of how their work has changed Under a white house Intended to deport in large numbers Of immigrants Living in the United States without permission.
The threats of public protection and national security to people are still a top priority, Elaston said.
This is not different from the Biden administration, but a major change has already stopped: Under Trump, officers can now arrest people without legal status if they run to them while the migrants were targeted to remove it. Yes. Under Biden, such a “suicide attack” was banned.
“We are looking for these public safety, national security cases. The big difference is, no one has a free pass anymore,” said Alaston.
He said the number of suicide attacks was fluctuated. By the end of Monday, across Maryland, the ICE arrested 13 people. Nine of them were targets and four others came to the fore in the morning.
One of the “suicide attack” was a growing punishment for theft. Another was already deported once, and two others had the final order to remove.
Changes to immigration implementation under Trump
Management Highlights the participation of other agencies in immigration operations At the end of the week, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, which are part of the Justice Department.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Boo on Sunday observed arrests in Chicago, a sign of the increasing participation of the Justice Department.
The daily arrest of ice, which was 311 in the year ending September 30, remained quite stable in the first days after Trump took office, then he increased dramatically on Sunday to 956 and 1,179 on Monday. If it persists, that number will mark the average daily average since the ICE started keeping the record.
Trump has also removed long -term guidelines, restricting snow from working in “sensitive places” such as schools, churches or hospitals. The decision is worried that many immigrants and lawyers who are afraid of children that their parents will be traumatized to see the drop offline in school or that the immigrants need medical care. They will not go to the hospital for fear of.
Eliaston pushed back the fears, saying that the iceberg of snow has been very low to enter one of these places. In his 17 years of his job, he said he had just gone to school once and helped stop an active shooter.
He said that the abolition of other guidelines that banned snow operations in the courts made a big difference to the agency’s work.
But getting rid of the policy of sensitive places affects the snow in more subtle ways.
For example, on Monday, the team stopped in a parking lot in hopes of catching a gang member of Venezuela, which was believed to be working as a delivery driver in a nearby business. There was a church across the street, and a streetover was a elementary school, which would go beyond the limit of parking under the previous guidance.
Some policies of implementation have not changed
All that has not changed, is that they have been targeted, Elaston said. Ice has a list of people after which they are illegally opposed to a workplace or an apartment building in search of people in the country.
He said, “I really hate the word ‘raids’ because it gives people the wrong impression, as if we are just going home and saying, ‘Show us our papers.’ “There can be nothing else.”
Within a week of returning to Trump’s post, Eliaston said he was constantly on the phone, trying to remove rumors about what ice was doing and who was being arrested.
Since starting his job in 2022, Elaston said he has worked to build relations with selected officials and law enforcement agencies in Maryland, where many communities cooperate with federal immigration officials. Shelter policies are placed to restrict it.
Eliaston has reached the cities to inform them of what Ice does and to whom the officers are pursuing. He also tries to build relations with city officials, so he feels more comfortable to tell the authorities that when these refugees have been detained, they will be released. That way snow can get them.
Another thing that didn’t change? Sometimes when you look for someone, they are empty.
Outside of Washington, in an apartment building in Takoma Park, three ice officers opened fire at the door of an apartment, asking it to come to the door.
“Miss, can you open?” The officer said. “Can you come to the door and we will talk to you? … Until we clean this address, we have to come back.
Finally, a man who lived in the apartment came home and talked to ice officers. It was discovered that the person he was looking for gave the police wrong when he was arrested and he was not living there.
If they can’t find a person, Elaston said, they keep looking.
“They will never stop searching for these boys,” he said.
