“Deportation flights have begun,” White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt announced Friday, releasing photos of military planes boarding people.
“President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: If you enter the United States of America illegally, you will face severe consequences,” she wrote on X.
It is not immediately clear who was on the plane or where the photos were taken.
Levitt did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Fox News Digital.
Information obtained by Fox News Digital shows that between midnight on January 21 and 9 a.m. on January 22, during a 33-hour period, ice enforcement and de-icing operations arrested more than 460 undocumented immigrants who include a criminal history of sexual assault, theft, burglary, and assault. Aggravated, drug and weapons offenses, resisting arrest, and domestic violence.
Agents arrested citizens from a large number of countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal, and Venezuela.
On Thursday, ICE agents also detained several workers at a fish market in Newark, New Jersey, Fox 5 NY reported.
Newark Mayor Rus Barca criticized the operation as an “atrocity” and a violation of the Fourth Amendment after agents went on a raid “without producing a warrant.”
One of the detainees in custody is a US military veteran who “suffered the indignity of having legality in his military documents,” Barca said.
“This egregious act is in clear violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees 'the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures…'” a statement.
“Newark will not stand by the Khaqim while people are illegally intimidated,” Barrack said, adding that he is “ready and willing to defend and protect human rights.”
