President Trump aggressively followed through on his pledge to carry out the largest mass deportation effort in American history in his first week back in power, arresting more than 2,000 people in a widespread crackdown.
A senior official in the Trump administration released exclusive deportation and arrest numbers to DailyMail.com to cap off Trump’s hectic first week back in power, including details of the worst criminals who had slipped through the net.
On Friday alone, ICE authorities arrested 445 illegal immigrants with criminal records, while another 148 migrants without criminal records were taken into custody, ready for deportation.
There were another 449 detainer filings — requests for local police to detain arrested individuals until ICE can pick them up — 468 removals or repatriations and 15 gang-related arrests nationwide.
Nearly 5,000 Homeland Security and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officials have been deployed by the Trump administration to conduct raids, particularly targeting sanctuary cities where dangerous criminals previously could not be tracked by ICE under weak Biden immigration policies era.
Among the worst of the worst picked up by ICE on Friday was Cesar Augusto Polanco, 59, a Dominican Republican national who was living free in Boston despite a criminal conviction for manslaughter.
In San Antonio, Texas, Venezuelan Nestor Jose Mendoza-Garcia was captured after being identified as an active member of the infamous Tren de Aragua gang and was found with a gun linked to an unsolved murder from November 2024.
Like many others on the exposed deportation list, Mendoza-Garcia was initially arrested during the Biden administration in October 2023, but was only given a warrant to appear and released into society — and lived free for over a year until he was taken into custody for a month. week.
Among the worst of the worst picked up by ICE on Friday was Cesar Augusto Polanco, 59, a Dominican Republican national who was living free in Boston despite a criminal conviction for manslaughter.

Juan Misael Canales-Garcia was one of many El Salvador citizens arrested as he was found with previous convictions for theft and kidnapping

The staggering numbers come as Trump aggressively pushed ahead with his pledge to carry out the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history in his first week back in power.
In New York, where migrant buses and flights numbered more than 10,000 people at their peak under the Biden administration, a number of raids led to arrests of known gang members and criminals.
Jose Tito Reyes, 54, a citizen of El Salvador, was arrested by ICE on Friday and found to have a prior conviction for assault and battery. He was given a 90-day jail sentence and three years’ probation, the White House official revealed to DailyMail.com on Friday.
ICE in New Orleans nabbed Juan Miseal Canales-Garcia, another El Salvador citizen previously convicted of robbery and kidnapping.
Mexican national Edgar Rivas-Rodriguez was also arrested in Chicago as he walked the streets despite previous convictions for possession of methamphetamine and leaving the scene of an accident causing injury.
Like Mendoza-Garcia, a wave of suspected members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang were arrested this week – with the gang known to have gained a foothold in the United States in recent years.
This terrifying development made headlines last year when Tren the Aragua gangsters took over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado.
Suspected gang member Elmer Aparicio-Castillo was taken into custody in Nashville along with another unnamed Tren de Aragua loyalist, 36, with both men holding criminal records including evading arrest, prostitution and drug possession.
And in Buffalo, New York, reputed sex trafficker Julio Cesar Diaz Martinez was arrested by ICE, where authorities said they rescued a female Dominican national he was actively victimizing at the time of his arrest.

A total of more than 2,000 illegal immigrants were arrested in Trump’s first week in the White House

Authorities have arrested several known Tren de Aragua gang members, including Edgar Rivas-Rodriguez, who walked the streets of Chicago despite prior convictions for possession of methamphetamine and leaving the scene of an accident that caused injury.

And in Buffalo, New York, reputed sex trafficker Julio Cesar Diaz Martinez was arrested by ICE, where authorities said they rescued a female Dominican national he was actively victimizing at the time of his arrest.

In San Antonio, Texas, Venezuelan Nestor Jose Mendoza-Garcia was captured after being identified as an active member of the Tren de Aragua gang and was found with a gun linked to an unsolved murder from November 2024.

It comes as another 1,500 active-duty troops arrived at the southern border on Thursday

A Haitian gang leader with 17 past convictions went on a wild tirade Wednesday as he was dragged into a police car
The terrifying list of arrested illegal immigrants are just some of the known murderers, rapists and pedophiles taken into custody in Trump’s first week – including a Haitian gang leader with 17 previous convictions who was seen launching into a wild tirade. was dragged into a police car on Wednesday.
It comes as Mexican authorities blocked a US military plane for the deportation of illegal migrants on Thursday.
U.S. officials told NBC News that a plane full of illegal immigrants bound for Mexico never took off after authorities south of the border rejected the move.
The flight was one of three scheduled to depart Thursday, joining two Air Force C-17s for Guatemala with more than 150 people on board, as part of what Trump has described as the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history.
Trump’s tough border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that of the 1,300 migrants arrested at the time, “more than 1,000 of them were criminals.”
He blasted the sanctuary city policy for allowing migrants with lengthy criminal records to remain in U.S. cities as they refused to notify ICE of their whereabouts during the Biden era.
“I don’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat, Independent, why don’t you let law enforcement go to a county jail, a taxpayer-owned county jail, and arrest the man you so clearly locked in a jail cell, the threat to public safety that will solve a lot of this problem,” he said.
“And I hope the sanctuary cities come.”

The White House on Thursday released this image of one of the planes allegedly bringing illegal migrants to Guatemala

President Trump’s tough border czar, Tom Homan, warned that local governments seeking to protect illegal migrants from deportation forces could now face criminal charges
Thursday morning also marked the start of Trump’s move to send the US military to the southern border, with 1,500 active-duty troops arriving early in the day.
The Pentagon confirmed that the 1,000 Army soldiers and 500 Marines deployed in the South include those from military police units, as well as combat engineers and intelligence specialists to help track and monitor illegal border jumpers.
The additional active-duty troops, which will be in addition to the approximately 2,500 troops already stationed along the border, will also help build barriers along the border and provide air power for deportations.
More than 5,400 migrants currently held in the US will be flown out of the country by the military in a show of force ahead of Trump’s first days in the White House.
As part of the effort, four C-17 and C-130 military aircraft were moved this week to El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California, an official told Task & Purpose. One of those C-17s was the plane rejected by Mexican authorities on Thursday.
Trump plans to send a total of 10,000 active-duty troops to the border.