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ICE arrests 84 illegal immigrants in DFW
ICE agents arrested nearly 90 illegal immigrants in North Texas over the weekend, a department spokesperson told FOX 4.
DALLAS - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 90 illegal immigrants in North Texas on Sunday. And there are signs this is just the beginning.
ICE Arrests in Dallas-Fort Worth
What we know:
ICE confirmed agents arrested a total of 84 people on Sunday in Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Garland, and Collin County.
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with our federal law enforcement partners, began conducting enhanced targeted operations yesterday in North Texas and the state of Oklahoma to enforce U.S. immigration law and preserve public safety and national security by keeping potentially dangerous criminal aliens out of our communities," an ICE spokesperson said in a statement.

Monday afternoon, FOX 4 spotted a group of handcuffed and shackled men being transported into a van at the ICE Dallas field office.
Hundreds in Dallas protested the illegal immigration policy on Sunday.
What we don't know:
ICE hasn’t said what crimes the DFW immigrants are responsible for but said all are criminals.
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North Texas ICE raids net 84 arrests
ICE agents arrested nearly 90 illegal immigrants in North Texas on Sunday. And there are signs this is just the beginning.
What they're saying:
"I highly doubt that you’ll see the grandmother or the child that everybody is worrying about being arrested. They may be, but it will be very, very few cases," said AJ Irwin, a retired Homeland Security special agent. "The government doesn’t want to do that first of all, and second of all, they don’t want to get tied up."
Irwin believes some of those recently arrested may have been on Homeland Security’s radar for several months or even years, but investigators may have not been allowed to move forward with specific arrests during the previous administration.
"They already know who these people are. They’ve been collecting this evidence for a while. So they’re targeting people," he said. "They’re not just doing what we used to do in the old days where you’d just go out and raid certain areas of a city that might notoriously have a bunch of illegal aliens living in it. No, they’re not doing that. It’s all targeted."
Nationwide Immigration Crackdown
The North Texas arrests were part of a nationwide roundup of nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants who are suspected of or were convicted of other crimes have been arrested.
About 50 illegal immigrants were arrested at a nightclub in Denver. Federal officials said many of them were drug traffickers and gang members.
Last year’s daily average for non-citizen arrests made was 310. The Trump administration wants to increase the daily number of arrests to between at least 1,200 to 1,500 people, according to a Washington Post report.
"I don’t think we’ve arrested any families. We’ve arrested public safety threats and national security threats, bottom line," said Border Czar Tom Homan.
'Deportation flights have begun' as President Trump ramps up ICE raids
The Trump administration says the first goal of the sweeping proposal is to remove criminals who are here illegally. And while there's no evidence of raids happening in North Texas, some students are expressing concerns.
Homan said ICE remains focused on finding criminals.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters on Monday that the illegal immigration crackdown is a top priority for the Trump administration.
"He’s made it very clear there is an emergency at the southern border that the sovereign, that protection of the sovereign territory of the United States is the job of the Defense Department," he said.
The Trump administration says it will allow federal immigration agencies to make arrests at schools, churches and hospitals, effectively ending a policy that had been in effect since 2011.
Homeland Security says: "Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrests,"
However, it added that officers need to continue using discretion and a "healthy dose of common sense" around sensitive locations.
As of now, it does not appear arrests have happened at those types of locations.
Texas Sends 400 Troops to the Border
As ICE continues its crackdown, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is sending more troops to the border.
Abbott on Monday said he was deploying about 400 soldiers from bases in Houston and Fort Worth to the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
Texas governor sends 400+ more soldiers to US-Mexico border
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is sending helicopters and hundreds more soldiers from bases in Houston and Fort Worth to the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
They’ll join the thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers who have already been deployed.
C-130s and Chinook helicopters are also being sent.
The Source: The information in this story comes from a statement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as news conferences with Border Czar Tom Homan, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and a news update from the governor's office.