Some people caught in Trump administration immigration operations have already been released back into the United States on a monitoring program.

In the first weeks of the new Trump administration, the White House has boasted about the arrests of thousands of undocumented immigrants. But behind the scenes, senior officials have expressed frustration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in tense calls for not meeting its marks,

The arrest comes as ICE continues to execute President Donald Trump’s mass deportation directive targeting an influx of illegal migrants to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday blasted the FBI after information was leaked regarding ICE's upcoming immigration enforcement actions in the Los Angeles area.

In recent weeks, authorities have arrested people in at least three states and accused them of acting like they’re carrying out the work of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested an astounding 11,000 illegal migrants in the first 18 days of the Trump administration – which is already a third of the total busts the agency made last year under former President Joe Biden,

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