President Trump lauded the work of ICE as he flashed mugshots of some of the most heinous illegal immigrant criminals the administration has rounded up in Minnesota for deportation, representing the «worst of the worst» among the thousands arrested in the last year.<\/b>
\nHe\u2019s making America safe again.
President Trump lauded the work of his \u201cpatriot\u201d ICE agents as he flashed mugshots of some of the most heinous illegal immigrant criminals the administration has rounded up in Minnesota for deportation \u2014 the \u201cworst of the worst\u201d among the thousands arrested in the last year.
\u201cThese are all from one state \u2014 out of many,\u201d Trump marveled at a White House press briefing marking the first full year of his second term in the White House.
\u201cMany of them murderers \u2026 do you want to live with these people?\u201d the president asked as he held up the pictures one by one, their crimes spelled out beneath their faces in big white letters including murder, lewd acts with a minor, strong-arm rape, affiliation with Hezbollah and many more, some convicted dozens of times.
The monsters he displayed represented just a sliver of the 10,000 arrests ICE has made in Minnesota alone since Inauguration Day, with Trump saying he could easily show a similar stack of photos \u201c30 times\u201d more.
He held up a photo of Abdirashid Adosh Elmi, a Somali national convicted of homicide, and Aldrin Guerrero-Munoz, an illegal immigrant charged with intentionally murdering his three-month-old son.
\u201cThis is what they\u2019re trying to protect,\u201d the commander in chief said of the growing throngs of radical protesters who have been fighting immigration agents in Minneapolis for weeks.
\u201cAll ICE wants to do is get them out of our country. Bring them to prisons and jails and mental institutions from where they came, that\u2019s all they want to do. They\u2019re patriots.\u201d
The president stressed that bringing these thugs to justice has required a \u201ctremendous amount of work\u201d by immigration agencies and ripped the Biden administration for allowing those illegal immigrants into the US.
One year into the second Trump administration, DHS has arrested 7,000 illegal immigrant gang members, making up some of the most despicable offenders nabbed so far.
\u201cWhen we say we are targeting the worst of the worst, this is what exactly we mean,\u201d said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
\u201cMany of these were let in by Joe Biden and should have never been in this country. These vicious criminals murdered, assaulted, robbed, and terrorized innocent Americans for sport. But under President Trump\u2019s and Secretary [Kristi] Noem\u2019s leadership, ICE is turbocharged to arrest even more gang members and make America safe again.\u201d
ICE has busted criminal thugs from more than a dozen murderous gangs, including the Crips, the Bloods, Norentos, MS-13, Tren de Aragua, Asian Boys, Trinitarios, the Latin Kings and many more.
Some of the gangbangers no longer terrorizing the streets of American cities thanks to Trump\u2019s nationwide immigration crackdown include:
Immigration officials held a press conference in Minneapolis Tuesday, touting their efforts and defending their agents\u2019 tactics, which have come under fire after the shooting of anti-ICE protester Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE agent Jan. 8 after she clipped him with her SUV while ignoring commands get out of her car.
\u201cOur operations are lawful,\u201d said Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino. \u201cThey\u2019re targeted and they\u2019re focused on individuals who pose a serious threat to this community. They are not random, and they are not political.\u201d
He slammed local politicians including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, whose vociferous and sustained condemnation of ICE\u2019s presence has made for a \u201cdifficult operating environment\u201d in the Twin Cities.
He blamed \u201ccollusion and corruption\u201d between lefty politicians and \u201canarchists\u201d for fostering the climate of violence that has taken hold during Operation Metro Surge, the largest immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota history.
Kicking off just after Thanksgiving, DHS arrested 3,000 criminals in Minnesota who were in the country illegally during the ongoing operation, which has seen the deployment of over 3,000 immigration agents.
\u201cIn the last six weeks, our brave DHS law enforcement have arrested 3,000 criminal illegal aliens including vicious murderers, rapists, child pedophiles and incredibly dangerous individuals. A huge victory for public safety,\u201d DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said this week.
Some of the \u201cworst of the worst\u201d snagged in Operation Metro Surge include:<\/p>\n