by Anna Kutz at News Nation
During his first week back in office, President Donald Trump’s administration carried out nationwide Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. The agency reported 956 arrests on Sunday alone.
That number follows the arrest of roughly 1,300 people by Thursday, according to “border czar” Tom Homan.
The number of arrests in the first three days of Trump’s presidency represents about 1.1% of total arrests made by ICE in FY 2024. Then, there were about 310 average daily arrests. That average is now about 433 per day — a number that will likely grow.
Here’s where the operations happened on Sunday.
Chicago
Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city.
The DEA’s Chicago office posted pictures on X showing Bove and Homan with agents from ATF and Customs and Border Protection.
Homan told NewsNation’s Ali Bradley that multiple…
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