Overview

• Operation Patriot, a month-long federal enforcement sweep in Massachusetts, led to the arrest of 1,461 undocumented immigrants.
• ICE reported that 790 of those detained faced significant criminal charges or convictions, including gang and transnational crime ties.
• Among those arrested were suspects wanted for murder, child predation, drug trafficking and a 55-year-old Salvadoran national sought under an Interpol Red Notice.
• The sweep brought together ICE Boston, the FBI, Customs and Border Protection, the ATF, the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Coast Guard and the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service.
• Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said agents would detain any noncitizen encountered with a removal warrant, and border czar Tom Homan pledged to press sanctuary jurisdictions on immigration enforcement.