The U.S. government is significantly escalating deportation efforts and border security. This includes deploying active-duty military personnel to the border, increasing the frequency of ICE raids in major cities, and utilizing military aircraft for mass deportations, amid rising tensions and protests in cities like Dallas.
James Kaufman, World News Report, today, January 26, 2025.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen,
we've been doing an okay job with the deportations,
but we need to really, really step it up.
We're getting the National Guard
and the active military involved currently.
And we just can't allow things like the protests
that happened in Dallas today to happen anywhere.
That group should have been surrounded by the local police
and everyone in that group,
although it was thousands, should have been vetted for citizenship
and detained if they were illegal or illegally here in the U.S.
So we have to bring local law enforcement into this as well.
Unless we're going to have ICE running around the country
and we're going to be hiring tens of thousands of ICE agents.
After all, we have 30 or 40 million illegal aliens here
in the U.S. and they would gladly start
a civil conflict over their deportations. Remember that.
This week, an office is already enforcing an immigration crackdown
that has instilled fear in some major cities.
We have already seen a series of raids,
and U.S. troops just arrived at the border this week.
NBC's Priya Shriyari is there near
the Texas-Mexico border with the very latest.
Priya, good morning.
Good morning, Peter. That's right.
The Pentagon has already begun deploying 1,500 active duty troops.
That's 500 Marines and 1,000 soldiers to join the 2,500 National
Guardsmen and Reserve Forces who are already deployed along the border.
The troops are going to be assisting in the construction of both
permanent and temporary physical barriers to stop illegal crossings.
There are also plans to use intelligence analysts
to help with the monitoring and detection of migrants.
Military aircraft are being used to assist
the Department of Homeland Security in
deportation flights of more than five
5,000 detainees from both here in El Paso and also in San Diego.
We've already seen a few planes land here
in El Paso in the last few days carrying troops.
And we also saw the first of those military aircraft
take detainees back to Guatemala on Thursday.
Now, we're also hearing that across
the border from where I am over in Mexico,
large tent-like structures are being enacted
as that country prepares for a potential influx of Mexican nationals
who could be deported from the United States back to Mexico.
All right, Priya, and the Trump administration
also ramping up these roundups of undocumented immigrants.
What more can you tell us about those?
That's right, Peter.
We've heard about a number of ICE raids that have
been conducted in American cities across the country,
including Buffalo, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Atlanta.
We know that ICE made 592 arrests yesterday.
And just to put it into some context here, we know that back
in September, ICE was making an average of 282 arrests per day.
So this is a significant increase from what we
were seeing just a few months ago.
One of the most notable raids that occurred over
the last few days took place in Newark,
New Jersey, just yesterday at a restaurant where
at least three people were detained.
Local officials there slamming the Trump administration,
saying that that raid was conducted without
a warrant, and saying that at one point an American citizen,
who also happens to be a
U.S. military veteran, was detained and asked for his identification.
Well, we're doing a great job.
We just need to step it up times a hundred.
Tom, if you're listening to me, I will CC you.
We can't let anything like what happened in Dallas today go unpunished.
We need to get people into the Dallas area
because it's going to happen next weekend as well.
Obviously, a lot of these jobs that us
U.S. citizens need have gone to illegal aliens.
They're here illegally, and we need to bring them back
to their country of origin so we can work those jobs.
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