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(audience applauds)

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- [Reporter] The largest mass deportation operation

in US history's begun.

- All Americans are hurt

by uncontrolled illegal migration.

- We had over 10 million people cross that border.

We don't know who they are, where they came from.

- [Agent] Don't move!

- We were getting overrun by foreign nationals,

child sex offenders, gang or drug cartel members,

and convicted murderers.

- We're making the streets safer.

- [Narrator] Illegal immigration is a crime.

- [Agent 2] Our job is to enforce those laws.

- [Reporter 2] Thousands of protestors showed up.

- [Reporter 3] They are calling for ICE to be abolished.

- Doxxing websites,

they're listing personal information of ICE agents.

- What we deal with on a day-to-day basis.

- We're law enforcement officers, 24/7.

- We have one clear goal,

criminal aliens off the street.

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(siren blares)

(suspenseful music)

(tense music)

- One of our officers engaged with a subject

based on reasonable suspicion,

so we're headed that way for backup, and here we are.

(tense music)

(engine whirs)

Tell him to shut off the engine.

- Yeah.

(speaking Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

(agent speaks Spanish)

[Suspect] For what?

- [Miguel] Take the keys.

(suspect speaks Spanish)

- [Miguel] Just for safety, that's all.

(agent speaks Spanish)

- No, no.

- He's Cuban.

(Miguel speaks Spanish)

- No, no, no.

(Miguel speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

(Miguel speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

(Miguel speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

- I need you to step outta the car

for me real quick.

(suspect speaks Spanish)

(Miguel speaks Spanish)

- Just come outta the car. - I need you to come

out of the car. - Open the window.

- Yo. - Out.

- Hey, hey. - Everybody out.

Out, out.

- Hey. - Out.

- Come outta the car. - Out.

- Come out of the car. - Let's go.

- Come outta the car. - Whoa.

- Open the window. - Let me get my breaker.

- Yo, lower the window.

(tires screech)

Watch out, watch out!

(cars crash)

(engine whirs)

- Get outta the car. Get outta the car.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! (tires screech)

(agent speaks Spanish)

- Get up now.

- Turn off the car.

(agent speaking Spanish)

- Get outta the car.

Come out now, now, now.

Get down, down.

Hands, hands. (suspect speaks Spanish)

- He's reaching for something. - I got him.

I got him. Cuffs.

(suspect speaks Spanish)

- All right, I'm gonna stand you up on three, ready?

One, two, three, up.

(Miguel speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

- He's a alien currently in proceedings right now,

so we're just gonna do a custom redetermination on him,

and he decided to do what he did.

- The ID came back to be an alien in proceedings.

That was a simple ask, "Keep the keys out of the ignition,"

but he put 'em in, turned the vehicle on,

and he rammed both vehicles trying to get away.

We were able to block this vehicle,

but if we were not able to block it,

we got two and a half tons of steel weaponized.

Had that vehicle pinched one of us,

it could have ended terribly.

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(Miguel speaks Spanish)

You would've ended up in the same place

with a whole lot less energy.

Now you're in the same place with an injury,

dirty, and facing potential criminal charges.

Now he's gonna be taken to the office for processing.

We're working with the US Attorney's Office

to pursue criminal prosecutions

and hopefully remove from the United States.

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- There are three components

to our overall national immigration strategy.

You have the US Border Patrol that protects our borders,

makes sure people do not get in.

You have Customs and Border Protection.

They are the ones at our port of entries.

And then you have Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

We're responsible for the law enforcement mission

within the borders of the United States.

ICE doesn't go out there and do just random sweeps.

What we do is targeted enforcement operations

where we know who our target is

based on criminal intelligence.

Enforcement and removal operations, ERO,

that's the backbone of our operation.

They're the men and women going out there

and targeting these foreign fugitive

and these criminal aliens that are in our neighborhood.

(computer beeps)

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- [Mike] All right, good morning, everybody.

Our first target, Byron Rivera Alvarenga, born in Honduras.

He has a burglary in the third, conviction, felony.

He was ordered removed July 8th of 2024.

Ex-wife, ex-girlfriend, he went over to her house.

He kicked in the basement door,

found her with her current boyfriend.

He grabbed a knife, threatened to kill them both,

the whole time in the presence of his young son,

who was right there, witnessed the whole thing.

Ultimately, he was arrested by the Nassau County Police.

We conducted surveillance about a week ago on him.

It's probably not enough of a window

to try to approach without him fleeing back into the house,

so I'm thinking that a car stop is probably gonna be

our best bet for this particular case.

Any questions?

All right, be safe, guys.

- All right. - All right.

- Thank you, sir.

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What we used to do in a week, we're doing in a day.

We're working 24/7, round the clock, holidays.

Everybody buys in. Nobody's complaining.

We're definitely making a difference.

What more do you need to satisfy your job?

You know you're protecting the public.

I think that keeps us all going,

and most of us, this is our backyards here.

(radio beeps) Radio check.

- [Agent 3] Yeah, it's good, copy.

- Our federal partners have been a huge asset for us.

Now, I'm able to supplement teams

with other federal agencies, so we're more productive.

We're able to cast a broader net.

We're able to be more active,

and I think, for the most part,

people appreciate what we're doing.

We have great relationships now with our sheriff's offices,

our police departments, our district attorney's offices,

the cooperation, the collaboration that we're getting.

You know, Nassau County was deemed

the safest county in America, and it just shows

how we can ultimately keep America safe.

When law enforcement works in unison with one another,

the results are priceless.

I'm gonna see if I can set up on Bay over here.

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- [Agent 3] Potential target's vehicle in the driveway,

the Dodge Ram.

- [Jay] I do have the full driveway

and the full front door, copy.

- It's probably gonna be right down there.

I don't wanna get in too close.

I'll stick here for now.

Gotta have patience on surveillance.

You're just waiting and waiting,

waiting for some type of activity.

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- [Agent 3] There's a guy with a blue shirt, jeans.

He exited the front door, and he's heading towards Nicholai.

I'm not 100% sure, though.

- When they're coming right from the door

right to the driveway and getting in the car,

I mean, you have a short window or short opportunity

to try to, like, identify that person.

- [Agent 3] ATF, I believe he's headed your way.

- [ATF Agent] Copy, I'm on the lookout.

- [Agent 3] Looks like he's about 120 pounds, short.

I don't know if it fits the description.

- [Jay] I don't think that's him.

- [Agent 3] If you want me to stop him, let me know.

- [Jay] Yeah, I guess so.

- You wanna let him get a little farther off the set?

But my concern is if he came out of the same house

and it's not our guy,

you don't wanna to make the wrong decision, you know,

and just burn the whole case, so you have to have patience.

- [Agent 3] All right, we got a male

that just came out of the driveway.

He's getting in a red truck in the street.

Definitely a possible for our subject.

We're gonna have to stop him.

All right, the red truck's in motion.

Jay, if you wanna go,

he is heading westbound towards ATF.

Jay, if you wanna go.

OD, you wanna go with him, I'll keep eyes.

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- [OD] Me, Jay, and ATF got the car stopped.

We're lighting them up now.

We're right over by the firehouse.

(siren blares)

All right, Mike, I'm at your 9:00.

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- Yeah, I got you. - Copy.

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- [Brian] The target's potentially dangerous,

so we have to be extra cautious.

(Nikita speaks Spanish)

- Individual came out of the residence, got into a vehicle.

We had some traffic getting in front of us,

so we couldn't get a clear picture,

but he fit the physical description of the target.

Subject provided a driver's license,

same last name as the target, but it wasn't him.

- [Jay] Last name Martinez, common spelling.

- Well, we ran that subject, and he's amenable

to apprehension for immigration-related charges.

I think a lot of people just assume

that we go make arrests

and then put somebody on a plane right away.

We don't order someone's deportation.

It's an immigration judge. They go through a process.

We're picking someone up. You know, they're here illegally.

They need to be put in front of a judge.

The judge makes the decision

whether you get to stay in this country

or they find you removable.

- No one's deporting you today.

The only person that can say you gotta go back

is the judge here, okay?

And you just gotta see the judge, all right?

All right, so sit tight.

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- [Reporter 4] Anti-ICE protesters clashing

with ICE officers in Minnesota.

- [Reporter 5] The agitators showed up

with shields in riot gear.

- [Reporter 6] Refusing to leave and putting up barricades.

- Democrats and the media work overtime

to try and stir fear up around ICE's deportation efforts.

- We have ICE federal agents pulling up,

terrorizing our communities, stealing,

and, yes, kidnapping people.

- It's disheartening to know that they're equating us

to individuals that are kidnapping people off the street.

The main misconception is that

people don't get their due process,

that they're just taken straight out of the country.

The judges give the orders. We just effectuate the removals.

I've been with this agency for almost 18 years.

Every administration that comes in,

there's gonna be a change in what they wanna prioritize

and not prioritize.

I can say never in the history that I've worked here

have we had this much support and attention.

We're not doing anything different.

It's just we got a lot more support now.

Our mission set's the same, detain, arrest, and remove

people that are not here legally.

My officers continue to go out there every day

in circumstances now that have become tense and stressful.

Officer safety is, like, a huge concern right now.

I mean, the assaults have gone up immensely.

- [Reporter 7] In Alvarado, July 4th, a disturbance outside

appeared to lure ICE correctional officers outside.

A positioned gunman then began firing.

- [Reporter 8] Another disturbing attack on ICE officers.

- [Reporter 9] The increase in attacks against ICE agents

is up 690%.

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- [Dave] Three primary targets we're focusing on

for public safety, one's an aggravated felon

with a firearm and burglary conviction.

The second one has 2 DUI convictions, and then a third one.

We attempt to do a vehicle stop on him last week,

and he failed to yield, almost hitting one of our officers.

- [Twig] I need help. I need help.

- [Agent 4] Try to get help. He's coming back.

- Okay, so we have either a failure to yield or a bailout.

Sounds like he's on foot, but they're not gonna get away.

We have guys on our team that run marathons,

and anytime we catch 'em, it's usually use of force.

(siren blares)

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You all right?

- [Twig] Oh, shit, my arm's (beep) up, dude.

- What happened?

- [Twig] Back at the Rofo, he took off.

I tried pulling him over, beat him back to his house,

and he (beep) outta my car, dude.

My car is (beep).

He ran. I tased him twice.

- Where's he at? - He's in custody.

After he (beep) was choking me,

I had to kick him in his (beep) nuts.

- So we have an officer injured.

It sounded like he had got kicked in the head

and also had an arm injury.

In my first 13 years with ICE,

I may have had two or three use-of-force incidents.

In the last month, we've had close to nine, huge uptick.

(bystander shouts)

Get Twig to the hospital.

- [Baseball Cap Agent] I gotta go to the hospital, too.

- [Dave] With him?

- Detainee. - All right.

- We have a detainee that was tased.

For any type of use of force,

we'll always offer medical attention.

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Yeah, scene's secure.

So the first target vehicle that we spotted this morning,

they attempted to light it up, the guy FTYed,

so we circled back to the house,

caught the guy coming back to his house.

He rammed Twig's car with his white work van.

As they tried to pin him, they're both up on the curb.

We're gonna wanna prosecute this guy.

10-4.

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Due to the Fourth Amendment,

we can do vehicle stops based on suspicion

that our target is in the vehicle.

But for us to be able to go into a house,

we're gonna need a criminal warrant as opposed to,

in this case, we have an administrative warrant.

So that's why it's advantageous to them to get home

and lock themselves in the house.

It's like, you know, playing tag and you're it.

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So he had a GoPro mounted on the dashboard.

Spoke to my supervisor.

He advised to seize the camera

since it was video evidence of a felony,

the assault on the federal officer.

They may not know it, but it's in their best interest

just to comply with the arrest because, within two weeks,

they can request a custody redetermination

and request a bond.

It's not guaranteed that they'll get it,

but when they do stuff like this,

they're absolutely gonna get held, no bond.

- [Reporter 10] 7:00 AM, a sniper started shooting

from a nearby rooftop and fired indiscriminately

at the ICE facility.

- We wanna have a debate about immigration policies.

We can do so in the halls of Congress

without demonizing the men and women who every day

put on a badge and go risk their lives to keep us safe.

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- [Agent 5] You guys see that blue Altima that left?

- [Agent 6] All right, that's the vehicle.

Let's pull this vehicle over.

- We had another individual leave the target's residence.

Got in a vehicle, conducted a vehicle stop.

Again, provided a Honduran passport.

This is how we conduct these investigations.

We're gonna do our due diligence.

Good to go? - Nah, field interview.

Okay. - Okay.

We're very proactive.

We're not just going to lose sight of the big picture here

and focus on just one target.

- No, no, no, but you never applied

for any status here, nothing?

You gotta step outta the vehicle for me please.

- [Dave] Random, he's amenable to removal,

so he's being arrested and detained right now.

If they are amenable to being apprehended or removal by ICE,

then we're going to take them to custody, as well.

(tense music)

- I'll change your handcuffs in front, okay?

- No problem. - No problem. We gotcha, cool.

- [Suspect] No problem.

- [Agent 6] All right, now we have

what looks like a Mini Cooper just pulled up in front.

- [Nikita] Yeah, be advised these guys already saw us

arresting the guy in the red pickup.

(phone rings)

- Do we have anybody that maybe go talk to these guys?

- [Nikita] The guys in the Mini Cooper got out.

I think they headed back into the house.

- I think maybe we'll blow it up now.

People know we're in the area and that we're here.

Back at the house, we had an individual

in a car in the driveway and he fits that description.

When our officers went back,

we think he may have ran back into the house.

Don't know what he's done up there,

if he's barricaded himself in,

if he's got weapons in the house.

- [Agent 6] All right, we're gonna go into the house.

Let's try to pin everybody there. Jay, you copy?

- [Jay] Yeah, we're here. We're just about to knock.

(suspenseful music)

(fist pounds on door)

- It is a consent based entry so we would have to

have him either come outside or consent

to us going in the house.

So we'll leave people on here

and if it's gotta be 24 hours, then we'll do that.

- One thing ICE always gets accused of is

we're arresting the wrong individual.

Before an ICE operation even takes place,

there's days and hours of intelligence

and case work that's done by the special agents.

They know exactly who they're going after

through fingerprints, photographs, sometimes DNA.

We work with intelligence from local

and state law enforcement, other federal partners.

We are making sure that we are getting the right target

at the right time.

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(computer beeps)

- Most people don't even know

that there's an intel side to ICE ERO.

We've been able to collect incredibly valuable information

that previously wasn't being done.

- [Interrogating Agent] Tell me your name, sir.

- Favor Rios.

- Favor, where are you originally from?

(Favor speaks Spanish)

- Why we're here today, favor, is we just wanna ask you

some questions about your journey to the United States

and things that may help us in furthering

investigations that we're conducting.

- A lot of people think of interrogations

as this in your face questioning,

but actually, just talking with somebody

is gonna be a more effective manner.

- [Interrogating Agent] Why don't you start by telling me

a little bit about your journey getting up to the US border.

(Favor speaks Spanish)

- Once arriving to Mexico, we were transferred

to custody of other people.

From there, they were in charge of bringing us

as close as possible to the border.

- Building that rapport and showing respect

as early on as possible is very key.

- [Interrogating Agent] Your family paid them

to help you travel up to the United States?

(Favor speaks Spanish)

- [Interrogating Agent] You know much they paid?

(Favor speaks Spanish)

- It was 65 to 70,000 quetzales.

- People are having to fork out anywhere from

$7,500 to $9,000 to get from Guatemala or El Salvador

to our southern border.

That's not even if they aren't kidnapped

or somehow exploited along their journey.

- We know in the community that you live in,

it's a area heavily populated with gang activity.

Have you been approached by any members of a gang?

(Favor speaks Spanish)

- I've been approached,

but I try hard to get away,

not try to carry conversations with that.

I know what people I need to hang out with

and what people to avoid, so I don't have any problems.

- [Interrogating Agent] Do you remember

who they may have been with, what gang?

(Interpreter speaks Spanish)

- MS.

- [Interpreter] MS 13.

- All of these interviews,

they're little pieces of the puzzle.

Our piece of the puzzle may seem insignificant,

but it still goes into an intelligence report

so that the FBI can pick it up,

and maybe that's their missing piece of the puzzle.

- ICE is an agency that was born out of 9/11.

So we've seen what could happen with unvetted immigration

and terrorist attacks.

Every day, the brave men and women of ICE

put on their body armor and their badges

and go out to do what they can to ensure

that another 9/11 never happens.

- [Reporter 11] There has been an attack

on three nuclear sites in Iran.

- [Reporter 12] Fear of sleeper cells in the United States

is very concerning.

Are they calling up their proxies

and saying, "Help us strike back?"

- [Reporter 13] There could be cells here

that could be activated.

- [Speaker] We are vulnerable.

The question is how many are in the country? We don't know.

- All right, today we're going after Mr. Jafar Sohrabi.

That's gonna be a picture of him right there.

He was a part

of Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard,

Tier III terrorist organization, trained in the military.

Let's be careful.

(tense music)

- This guy came in through the southwest border in 2023,

was processed and released,

and then we recently got information

about his former membership with the IRGC,

and obviously, IRGC is

a designated foreign terrorist organization.

They have connections with Hamas, Hezbollah,

and various other terrorist proxies.

So we're targeting him as a national security threat,

and the fact that he has failed to comply

with his supervision with the non detained case officers.

(tense music)

Yeah, I gotcha.

I'll see if there's any spots down here,

but just assuming there's probably

not gonna be much parking this early.

Most people haven't left yet.

- [Phil] Yes, ma'am.

We'll be clear and 233 will be clear.

- I can see the backside of that RAV4 a few driveways in.

He had a tarp covering his license plates

so if a license plate reader came by,

it wouldn't be able to pick up

a pretty well established pattern.

(tense music)

Hey Phils, we have a male subject that came out the door.

Was this guy like really alert when you saw him last time?

- [Phil] 233. It'll be three on a 10-4.

- He did kind of look this way

a little too long from my comfort.

I think I'm gonna move before he comes back out.

I don't want him to get spooked.

(tense music)

Yeah, I'm gonna go back around the corner here.

It sounds like he's moving some work equipment

to his work vehicle so he's probably getting ready to leave.

(tense music)

This will be a good spot

'cause if he turns right, we can follow.

If he turns left, we'll just flip around

and get behind them.

He's just leaving now and he might have a kid in the car

so we're gonna try to, here he is.

We're gonna try to stop him soon

so the wife can take custody of the kid.

(tense music)

There we go.

(suspenseful music)

(sirens blare)

Who's that behind us?

I got the wife.

(suspenseful music)

It's her right there.

Hey, watch her. Watch the wife up front.

- Step outside and talk to me real quick.

(melancholy music)

- [Joseph] If we're arresting a parent

in front of their child,

we always try to get them out of view of their child

so they don't see us handcuffing their parent.

- We're Immigration and Customs Enforcement, all right?

You understand?

So I don't wanna make a scene.

I don't wanna arrest you in front of your kids.

Do you understand? - My wife is-

- Your wife is right here, so do me a favor.

- Okay. - Listen, I don't want

the kids to see. - No, no.

- So we're gonna walk back here.

We're gonna put you in the backseat of this car, okay?

- We want to minimize any sort of lasting memory

or possible traumatization.

We don't wanna create any sort of situation like that.

Put your hands behind your back please.

Do you have any weapons or anything on you?

- No.

- We are empathetic to people with families,

regardless of if they're a national security threat

or have a low criminal history.

(melancholy music)

Go back. We'll make sure the wife gets the kid.

Yeah, let's have her make sure we get both kids to her.

Anytime there's children involved, safety of the children

and custody of the children are priority over the target.

Ma'am, can you come get your other kid?

I don't wanna leave him in the car.

We wanna make sure they stay safe

and they're with someone that they can trust

and taken care of.

An incident like this with kids involved,

we'll be portrayed as taking a parent away from children.

We're not doing that.

We took extra precautions to make sure

that those children are with a parent.

We didn't just leave 'em in the car and drive off.

- [Agent 7] She doesn't understand English

so I will translate for her.

- Okay, so we're with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Her husband's coming back to the office

just to do some paperwork.

He's not getting deported or removed right now.

He's still gonna see the judge

like he has been already, okay?

- [Agent 7] He already has a retainer

with the lawyer and stuff, so-

- Yeah.

Yeah, we're aware and we'll let his attorney know.

We'll notify the attorney

and then they'll argue everything in front of a judge.

You know what language he speaks?

- Farsi. - Farsi.

- Farsi? - But the Farsi

is supposed to be in the Persian Farsi,

not the Afghan or Tajik Farsi.

- Persian Farsi? - Yeah.

- Okay, perfect.

Yeah, that way we can have someone translate for us.

We're gonna leave but tell her just

she can just wait for a phone call.

He's not getting deported or removed right now.

He's still seeing a judge,

and his case will play out in front of a judge, okay?

- Okay. - Thank you.

The biggest thing the media gets wrong

is the whole due process aspect.

We're being portrayed

that we're taking people off the street,

kidnapping them or taking people away from kids

and not giving them due process.

This guy is going to get all the due process he's deserved

just like any other alien we bring into custody.

(tense music)

Next 48 hours,

he's first gonna go to the Baltimore field office.

We're going to do an initial intake.

Intelligence will come down and do a thorough interview

and then approve bed space from some facility in the country

and then he will get moved to that as soon as we can,

hopefully within the next 48 hours.

We try to move him as quick as possible.

Everyone did a great job. We're all safe.

Got that guy's safe. Everyone goes home in one piece.

That's the main goal.

- ICE is more visible now in communities than ever before.

And unfortunately for the men and women of ICE,

that's put a target on their back.

- There are people that wanna instigate, agitate,

shouting, yelling things.

- (Beep) off.

Do something better with your life, you piece of shit.

- [Brian] And obviously, we can't share criminality

with just bystanders or, you know,

anything relating to their immigration status.

But now, people are gathering around our target's residence

and the target is refusing to come out.

- [Protestor] Oh, he's got another dickhead with him.

(tense music)

- Yeah, at this point we need a warrant to enter the house.

- The target has a final order of removal,

which is an administrative warrant

issued by an immigration judge.

But now since we've been trying to get him

to come out all day, we are seeking a criminal warrant

for 8 USC 1325 as well as 1253, failure to depart.

- Two of you guys in the back.

The other two on the side.

- Right now, set a perimeter, shut down the location

and wait for the warrant to get signed.

(tense music)

- We made contact with the target.

- What'd he say? - Now he's contemplating it

'cause we told him that we're in the process-

- Good. - Of getting

a criminal warrant.

If we take the criminal warrant,

whoever else is in the house that is here illegally

might also be detained.

Wanted to speak to his lawyer

and he's gonna call back in five minutes.

- We're trying to give him every opportunity

to just come out and end this.

It's not working at this point.

Owner of the property is here, as well.

(Tony speaks Italian)

- Tony, does he have the keys to the door?

- No, he said no. - No?

- He's saying he doesn't.

- Five minutes, buddy. What's up?

What do we got here? Talk to me.

We're gonna do this the right way?

Why don't you come down to the front door

and I'll show you what I have though.

Hey, listen, it's coming,

but we wouldn't waste all this manpower here

if we didn't have a warrant on the way, I promise you.

- Once we get the warrant, we'll go from there.

If we have to, then we're gonna have to take the door down.

(fist bangs on door)

- [Brian] See what we can do.

Hopefully we get him to come back out and talk to us.

(agent speaks Spanish)

- Somebody walk by the window.

I don't know if the stairs go straight up.

Window. Window.

- I don't have a problem.

I need the order. I come down.

No problem.

- You have two options.

You can either come out now or we're taking the door

and everybody inside is going too.

Do you understand?

Okay. Then there's nothing we need to talk about.

There's nothing we need to talk about anymore.

What do you wanna do?

(suspenseful music)

- Under the Immigration Nationality Act,

administrative warrants is how ICE operates every day.

Where we actually go out there

and we make the arrest based on a final order

by a judicial judge to remove or deport that individual

from the United States.

But we also enforce criminal warrants

when there's evidence of a crime

and a judge approves and issues that warrant.

(computer beeps)

(tense music)

- We are in route to our first target this morning.

He is from El Salvador. He's been deported before.

My officers have been conducting surveillance

at this location.

We understand where the individual lives.

We do have a criminal warrant,

so if he doesn't depart the house,

we will breach the door at 6:00 AM.

(tense music)

Subject didn't come out,

so we're gonna be going in to make the arrest.

- [Agent 8] At 4640 Paradise, go forth.

(tense music)

(tense music rises)

(hand bangs on door)

- Police with a warrant!. Open the door.

(tense music)

(hand bangs on door)

Police with a warrant. Open the door.

(tense music)

(hand bangs on door)

Police with a warrant. Open the door.

- Contact. - Open the door.

Open the door. Open the door.

- What's it? What's it?

What's it for you? - Open the door.

Exit the residence. Exit the residence.

- Hey, let me see your hands.

Hands up. Let him back out.

- That's him, definitely. - Let him back out.

- My kids are in the house. - Okay, we're not coming in.

Step out. - Are we ready?

- The subject has a active arrest warrant

for felony reentry into the United States.

He's got convictions for assault, felony strangulation,

dangerous drugs, and he's a member of the MS-13 gang.

These MS-13 gang members are a high priority for ICE.

They can be very dangerous for our officers.

We typically like to make these arrests quickly.

We're securing him now

and we're gonna be transporting him back to the office

for processing.

We will turn him over to the US Marshals for prosecution

since he's got aggravated felony convictions.

The range of punishment for this individual

is gonna be two to 20 years in federal prison.

After he serves his time,

we will deport him back to his country.

(tense music)

Similar to our last subject, our second target,

he's got two prior removals.

He was removed by ICE in 2015 and 2013.

We do have information that he's back.

He was arrested for assault and battery.

Possible gang member.

We'll wait for him to leave the apartment

and arrest him there.

(tense music)

He drives a 2004 blue Honda CR-V.

(tense music)

Is that our target? - I believe so.

- [Robert] Go, go, go.

Execute, execute, execute.

(dramatic music)

- [Agent 9] He's reversing.

(tires screech) Go, go, go.

- Get outta the vehicle. - Get outta the car.

- Put your hands up. (speaking Spanish)

- Out. Turn around. - That don't (beep) to me.

- [Agent 10] Jimenez Hernandez?

(speaking Spanish)

- Come with me, okay?

(speaking Spanish)

I have a warrant for your arrest.

- The priority for us is arresting people

with serious criminal histories that are dangerous

to the community

and that's lost in the current media narratives being spun

that ICE is going after non-criminals,

and that's making it dangerous for officers

to operate in the community.

We're getting assaulted, our vehicles are being smashed.

So it's very difficult for us to enforce the law

with that media narrative out there

that's completely incorrect.

(computer beeps and whirs)

- I don't have a problem. I need the order.

I come down. No problem.

(Blonde Agent speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

(Blonde Agent speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

(Blonde Agent speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

(Blonde Agent speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

(Blonde Agent speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

- Mike, you got the 205?

(Blonde Agent speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

(suspect speaks Spanish)

- [Blonde Agent] Okay.

(tense music)

- Here it comes. - All right.

- Back up, mate. - Back up. Back up.

- And then he's gotta move the chair.

(tense music)

- It's okay. It's okay. (Blonde Agent speaks Spanish)

- Walk to me. Walk to me.

Walk to me.

Walk to me. Walk to me.

- You made a smart choice, my man.

- [Brian] This one, you know, is especially important

that we stuck it out and we made sure

that we ultimately apprehend that individual.

(tense music)

(crowd shouts)

- [Blonde Agent] Tony, you got something back there.

(crowd shouts)

- [Brian] There's a lot of support for us here,

but then there's also a lot of people that don't support us.

(protestors shout)

- Get the (beep) outta here.

- [Brian] I just dunno how could support somebody like that

living in your community,

let alone right across the street from you.

(engine whirs)

- Anybody can take a video of something

that they see going down on the street

and post it on social media.

A lot of 'em only show like a snippet of it

and then it gets reshared

and people start posting opinion videos on it.

Those opinions become fact.

People have no idea why we targeted these individuals.

We can't talk about why that individual was targeted

at that point,

because it's an ongoing federal investigation.

They have these knee jerk reactions over people

that if the public had all of the facts,

they wouldn't be upset about that person getting locked up.

Maybe one day, people will realize

we're not just doing stuff to do it.

We're targeting people that need to be targeted.

- [Piers] Numerous doxxing websites,

they're listing personal information of ICE agents.

- [Reporter 14] Their names, photos posted online

along with death threats.

- [Miguel] ICE is demonized

because we're effectuating the law.

- There might be some messaging

that's going out in some communities to resist, fight, run.

We're seeing that more and more.

- Masked men snatch, kidnap and disappear

immigrants of all legal statuses.

- You can't really control what the public's gonna do.

They have their own opinions.

We're the best thing in the world

and then we're the worst thing in the world.

You'll exhaust all your mindset

just trying to appease everybody.

You just have to continue

to do the good work that we're doing.

- We've been on the news for a while now.

We've kind of, at this point now really just tuned it out.

Are we doing what's best for the public?

I mean, that's what it comes down to.

How we're making the community safer.

(suspect speaks Spanish)

- And I'd say that narrative,

it's just not getting out there.

And unfortunately, we can't control that.

But we know that we are making a difference

and we are doing the right thing.

(suspect speaks Spanish)

(Blonde Agent speaks Spanish)

(tense music)

(tense music continues)

- [Miguel] This man has cartel ties

and is wanted for murder in Mexico.

- During the last administration,

ICE saw almost 15 million people

come in through our non detained setting.

- [Narrator] Aggravated battery with a dangerous weapon,

home invasions.

- Criminal history includes domestic violence.

- Two counts of sexual assault on a child.

- He acts like he's untouchable.

- [Narrator] ICE has over 1.5 million individuals

that have a final order of deportation.

- He's running. - Stop. Police.

Stop.

- [Miguel] We have a job to do, but at the same time,

we have to go home to our families.

(tense music fades)