Hundreds of "illegal immigrant criminals" arrested, hundreds more flown out of U.S. by military, White House says
Snippet of Article: "...Hundreds of "illegal immigrant criminals" in the United States were arrested Thursday and hundreds of others were flown out of the country on military aircraft as President Trump's promised mass deportation operation got underway, the White House said.
In a post on X Thursday night, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "The Trump Administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex crimes against minors." Tren de Aragua is a violent gang that started in Venezuela and has now started to spread into the U.S. It became something of a flashpoint during the presidential campaign.
Those 538 arrests included 373 people with criminal records and 165 people without criminal records aside from immigration violations, according to documentation provided by a senior administration official. Another 1,041 people were removed or repatriated, according to those records.
Arrests included a 23-year-old Ecuadorian citizen convicted of rape. He was arrested in Buffalo. Another arrest in Buffalo was that of a m..."