BREAKING : In a Span of Only 3 Days, ICE Arrests 26 Illegals in Minnesota

As part of a three-day operation in the Midwest, ICE arrested 26 illegals in Minnesota last week.

This the largest such effort in the state since the Trump administration took over with promises of ramped-up immigration enforcement.

From Star Tribune

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, said late Wednesday that the operation targeted immigrants with criminal convictions, previous deportations and pending deportation orders. Immigrants and their advocates rushed to parse the announcement for evidence of the shift to a harder enforcement line they have been bracing for.

 While immigration authorities under the Obama administration didn’t go after most immigrants returning after a deportation or flouting a final order to leave, the new administration has elevated them to a higher priority.

Other than that, last week’s operation did not appear significantly different from ones that took place periodically under Obama, said Brad Capouch, the business administrator at Incarnation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. One of those arrested in the Twin Cities was a church member, a factory worker who along with his wife was dropping off his son with a caregiver just off Lake Street one early morning last week.