Immigration enforcement has become a dominant theme of the second Trump administration. Since January 2025, Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested over 100,000 people—doubling the pace of the final year of Joe Biden’s presidency. WIRED reporter Vittoria Elliott tracked where the most migrants are being arrested, where exactly ICE is taking them, and where they’re deported to. This is Immigration & Customs Enforcement, On The Grid.
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That omitted conviction would be illegal entry, if and when convicted.
CoreCivic needs to be stopped
Good job, ICE agents!
I bet those planes effing stink
Get all of them. It’s time to go.
Bro doesn’t this cost more money for the country? We end up having to feed them and house them, which cost more money the. Just shipping them back
WHEN WILL YOU STOP LYING ABOUT WHAT IS A CRIME? JUST MORE AIDING AND ABETTING.
KEEP SPEAKING UP, WHAT PART OF THE PATRIOTS HAVE EVERYTHING, DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?
THANKS AGAIN I GUESS. 🙄😑
Please Please DO NOT CALL ILLEGALS – Immigrants! It’s like calling a burglar a guest! Immigranats are HERE LEGALLY! THANK YOU ICE officers!
Ice ice baby! 🧊
Who cares
Go ICE. We need more arrests and deportations.
Why does ICE avoid gangs and bad neighborhoods? Where the real bad illegals are?
Cancer is being removed one cell at a time.
HALLELUJAH!!!! GET EM ALL OUT!!! MORE JOBS HOUSING HEALTHCARE ETC. MUCH LOWER PRICES FOR ALL OF US AMERICANS!!!!!
*_I SUPPORT MASS DEPORTATION!!!_*
*_Trump one of the greatest president ever!!!!_*
This is not your ountry,get out.
Ship them to hard labor prison chain gangs working a brief 4 or 5 years until their deportation case is heard, it’s win win for everyone
Gestapo
To catch a predator.