It’s been a busy week for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Law enforcement arrested more than 1,400 illegal immigrants. Hackers reportedly doxxed federal employees, releasing their personal information, as Mexican cartels placed bounties on ICE. Homeland Security says it doesn't plan to back down and will track down anyone who threatens or assaults their officers.
It's been a busy week for ICE. We're
going to go live with NTD's David Lamb
to bring us updates from this week in
immigration enforcement. David, how are
the immigration operations going?
>> Yeah. Hi, Chris. So, more and more
people are getting arrested. So, ICE
along with uh they said with f other
federal agencies, they have arrested
more than 1,400
illegal aliens in Massachusetts. And
this is just one area across the US. So,
um, now as far as the criminals, they
say that the arrests include murderers,
thieves, rapists, drug traffickers, uh,
child sex predators, and members of
violent transnational criminal gangs.
So, uh, ISIS's message is that they want
to hold these people accountable, people
that break the law. Chris,
>> right? Right. And the FBI has been
saying they will not let the immigration
system be exploited. Federal agents also
came across numerous challenges as well.
What can you tell us about that, David?
>> Right. Yeah. This this past week there
were a lot of arrests as well as
challenges. So for example, the hacker
group known as the comm they apparently
have doxed uh many federal agents and
this is according to 404 media. Uh
they're saying that the personal
information of hundreds of federal law
enforcement officials was posted um was
released and this includes data on
people working for the Department of
Homeland Security and ICE. So to give
some numbers on that, that's the
information of 700 Homeland Security
employees and around 200 DOJ officials
and the emails of 170 FBI employees. And
the hackers apparently used Telegram
um and said that they're trying to cash
in on the bounties placed on ICE. So,
this is referring to what Homeland
Security says that Mexican cartels have
been involved telling people that uh
they would offer bounties or uh rewards
of up to to thousands of dollars up to
50,000 for things such as finding
information on these agents uh
kidnapping them, monitoring them, and
even calling on assassination of
officials um unfortunately. So, uh
that's what Homeland Security mentioned
uh this week. And this all comes as
immigration raids. Uh those that are
against the raids say that communities
and family members that have been have
been negatively impacted when their
family member gets uh arrested because
of these immigration raids. Chris,
>> definitely a high pressure environment
for these um ICE agents. Has the
government backed down as a result of
these recent events?
>> Uh that's a good question. they are not
backing down. If anything, they're
continuing to do their immigration
enforcement. So, uh, Homeland Security
said that in response to the threats,
um, and these recent events, you know,
they've been getting, uh, the agents
have been getting, um, facing ambushes,
uh, and such nature. So, they're saying
that they're not going to back down and
that quote, uh, if you threaten or lay
hands on our law enforcement officers,
we will hunt you down and you will find
out really quick. So that's their
message. And uh to go along with that,
um as far as uh employment, um on
Wednesday there was word that 175,000
Americans were have applied to join ICE.
Chris, back to you. All right, David
Lamb, thank
