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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.

- We were getting overrun by foreign nationals,

child sex offenders, gang

or drug cartel members and convicted murderers.

- [Investigator] We're making the streets safer.

- [Narrator] Illegal immigration is a crime.

- [Investigator] Our job is to enforce those laws.

- [Reporter] Thousands of protestors showed up.

- [News Anchor] They are calling for ICE to be abolished.

- Boxing websites.

They're listing personal information and ICE agents.

- It's what we deal with on a day-to-day basis.

We're law enforcement officers 24/7.

- We had one clear goal, criminal aliens off the street.

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(operator vocalizing)

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- Good morning.

This is gonna be Operation 25025 for this year.

The name of the subject is Ruiz Gamez,

Jose Antonio with an A number of (beep).

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Ruiz Gamez is a 32-year-old citizen of Mexico

with a final order of removal.

And Ruiz has been previously removed

from the United States seven times to Mexico.

He was charged in the United States

for narcotics and a possession of a firearm.

Ruiz is wanted by law enforcement authorities

in Mexico for homicide.

This individual's working for cartel entities in Mexico.

That's why El Paso SRT's been activated

to transfer this high-profile prisoner

to Mexican authorities at the border.

This is our subject right here.

We always have to maintain that high level of alertness

and ensure that we're not compromised.

Choke points, areas where we are more vulnerable

to be attacked in case anyone tries to interfere

with the transfer and break 'em out,

make sure we have our chase vehicle protecting those planks

of ours, and if we are compromised,

we will return back to the detention center.

Secure the subject,

and ensure that nothing else is going on.

Please have your head on a swivel.

We don't know what's going on on the South Side,

and we don't know if we can possibly become compromised.

Therefore, we gotta be ready to go at all times.

SRT's our Special Response Team for immigration

and customs enforcement for ICE.

It's compared to our local SWAT teams.

We're trained to execute high-risk prison transfers

and other high-risk operations

that are average deportation officer

or ICE agent is not equipped to handle.

So let's bring it in real quick,

and Renee will let us into it with prayer.

- Thank You, Father God, for who You are.

We thank You for the opportunity we get, Father God

to work in this kind of job.

Oh Lord, we know, Father God,

that our job is dangerous at times, Father God,

and we're taking dangerous people back.

Father God, please protect us, oh Lord,

as we are on the bridge, Father God.

In Your name, we pray.

- Amen.

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- A lot of things go through my mind

as the tactical commander for our team,

but I think that the most important thing

for me is officer safety.

I gotta make sure that my officers are safe at all times.

We execute our operations swiftly,

and that they return back home to their families.

That's our number one concern.

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Our guys, you see 'em covering their face

because a lot of these individuals are affiliated

with drug cartels in Mexico.

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And so, we never know if they see our guys

and they might want to cause them far more retribution.

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Every time we do operations, whatever operation it is,

my mind is running a thousand miles an hour

and thinking of the "What if" can't become complacent.

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We gotta make sure that we're always ready.

In case someone tries to ambush us

or make a move on the prisoner,

he is our responsibility up until we turn him over

to Mexican authorities at the border.

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You give us updates on the routes and stuff.

Make sure there's no construction.

Hey, all units, all units.

We will move at the transports call handler.

Let us know when you're ready to execute,

and we'll start moving.

Should be about zero nine twenty.

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10-4.

So we wanna make sure that we keep a close tight convoy

so that there's no possible threats

or interference to our operation.

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Hey, all units, let's stage our vehicles accordingly,

and be ready to go at the transport's command.

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(door thuds)

- Good, copy, we can move.

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- The team always has contingencies

on situations where there's shots fired

or they wanna ram our vehicles.

We have to react immediately.

If not, the propensity of us getting hurt is very likely.

So we try to prevent that.

That's my number one concern.

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This is the Port of Entry.

This is where we will hand the individual over

to Mexican authorities.

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We'll have our ICE attache show up.

They're part of this entire operation.

These high-profile removals are very common here

through the El Paso field office.

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We have an amazing intel unit here

that coordinates all these removals

with the Government of Mexico,

and they coordinate with Customs and Border Protection

to ensure that there's a smooth transition.

As you can see, the US marshals are here as well.

He'll get off right now.

They're gonna prep him with different type of restraints,

just simply because now we're turning him over

to the Mexican side and, of course,

we don't want our restraints to go with him.

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We're still in the US side,

but as you can see, the Government of Mexico,

they don't stop traffic.

Traffic just keeps coming North.

So, we have to be very vigilant on that as well.

We don't know who's coming over here,

so I have guys covering the flanks.

A Convoy, standby.

Standby, I'll give you the go.

- [Operator] Roger that.

- Now we're gonna go ahead

and execute our operation here at the Bridge.

Customs and Border Protection will stop all traffic,

and they won't let traffic come up here.

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- [Operator] Pierre, we're good to go.

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- All right, Convoy, let's execute.

For officer safety reasons,

you'll see 'em execute a vehicle movement.

- [Operator 2] Guys, let's get ready for a three-point turn.

- So that we can better position ourselves in case we have

an altercation where we got a evac immediately.

- [Operator 2] Three-point turn...

Now. (suspense music)

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- A handler, let's just stage here.

Everybody else, deploy left and right flanks

and cover my handler, please.

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Standing by. Are we good?

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All right, handler, let's execute.

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- [Operator 2] Stepping out.

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- These operations are tough for us.

We're removing these individuals from our country

that pose a threat to public safety.

We have a job to do, and we do it very effectively,

and ensure that the operation goes flawless,

but at the same time, we have to go home to our families.

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Today, this is a successful mission.

The prisoner's handed over to Mexican authorities

to face justice for his crimes.

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- First target is gonna be for Team 1.

It's gonna be milking Alvarado.

Criminal history includes domestic violence.

It's also got a warrant out of Georgia for robbery.

Verified member of MS-13.

We haven't ID'd him at this trailer park,

but I have a pretty high confidence

that he is at this particular trailer.

We're living with his baby mother, right?

They've had multiple domestic incidents in the past.

We've got additional targets inside that same trailer park,

and if we need to flex any of those,

we'll make that call over the air.

- My name is Brian Acuna.

I'm a Deputy Field Office Director

in the New Orleans Field Office.

I've been with ICE, which began

as the Immigration and Naturalization Service, since 1997.

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I'll take the Nissan North side.

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Today, our Fugitive Operations Team

in New Orleans is out here investigating the first

of three targets that we're going after.

This is an area with a heavy concentration

of illegal aliens.

We work in this area daily.

What Converse has given us over

the last 20-plus years has not kept up with the amount

of people crossing illegally.

In the interior states, ICE is here to be the backstop

to what's happening at the border.

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We're gonna make an investigatory stop,

- It's gonna be a white truck. - Right behind you.

The basic job areas of an ICE deportation officer are

to identify, investigate, locate, arrest, detain,

and remove illegal aliens from the country.

When we encounter other suspected illegal aliens,

our expertise as immigration officers allow us

to identify if they're legally present in the United States.

- Do you have work visa?

- Yeah, I work.

- You have a work paper?

- No (speaks in foreign language)

(Brian speaks in foreign language)

(Brian continues speaking in foreign language)

(migrant speaks in foreign language)

(Brian speaks in foreign language)

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So we made the investigatory stop,

identified two aliens illegally present United States,

and their cases are gonna be checked out further,

and we'll make a disposition.

And if they already have a order of removal,

we're gonna place them in removal proceedings

at this time.

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The Immigration and Nationality Act has been the basis

for most immigration law for almost 70 years now,

despite all the controversy.

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We have one in custody, just trying

to figure out which direction we're at.

It should be just down here, down the street.

When we do our targeted enforcement actions, we know

who we're going for, and we know

what their full criminal history is.

The male in custody is Herman Navarrete of Honduras.

He first came to the country illegally in 2018,

and he came to our attention for the battery charge.

The young lady is gonna be an illegal alien,

and the team reported to me said it seems

like she was drinking this morning.

What do we got?

- It was a target that came up

in the same trailer park is the main target.

- Okay. - So we saw him pull out,

we decided to take him.

Robos just sitting on the main.

We're gonna take him back to St. Rose,

and we'll be back out in a minute.

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- This couple in custody were two of our alternate targets,

but we are still surveilling the main target

at the trailer park. (vehicle whooshing)

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This guy that we're setting up on is MS-13.

So, looking at this guy's case now,

arrested in Texas in May of 2014,

you enter this guy's immigration case number.

It's got a flag in red public safety,

transnational organized crime actor for known

or suspected terrorists.

Border Patrol agents encountered the subject

on a freight train in Uvalde, Texas,

and the agents could tell he had just come over the border.

The ERO San Antonio Field Office deported him.

Now, there was a March 2025 encounter.

For the last six months,

we've been investigating Mr. Alvarado

and trying to track him down.

Guys under the radar's living with his girlfriend.

Even though he may not come out this morning,

eventually, we're gonna catch up with him, and arrest him.

- Once an individual has come into the border illegally,

it's upon the men and women of ICE to go ahead

and put them behind bars.

It's a group of individuals that don't want to be found,

but the men and women of ICE are out there using

great criminal case work and police intelligence

to locate these aliens

that have escaped justice at the border.

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- I like what I do because people

that are breaking the laws, of course, we address it,

but also at the same time, I feel that I do help a lot

of people that fear the, "Oh my God,

it's immigration, I'm gonna get deported."

I always put myself in their shoes,

and I say, "What if that was my dad getting picked up?"

My dad was an immigrant back in the 1950s.

He was a migrant worker who picked foods

and vegetables in California.

That's how he came in.

I will not violate anyone's rights.

I will not mistreat anybody.

If something is getting outta hand, I'll be firm with him,

but I won't get to the point

where I'm gonna take it personal.

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This is the Port of Entry right here. That's Mexico.

On a daily basis,

hundreds of thousands of people crossed back

and forth from Juarez to El Paso.

Years back, when we had the big influx

of the migrants coming in, the caravans,

Border Patrol was taking the brunt of all that traffic.

You had, as far as the eye could see,

there was people there, families with babies,

with small children.

I talked to two migrants

that were actually released from jail,

and they said, "You either go to the US

or you continue to be in jail here."

That's what they told me. (screen scratches)

- [Reporter] Hundreds of people are screaming

into the United States illegally right now.

Certainly does not look like an international border there.

- What we saw under the last administration,

the Southern Border, was the main point

for most illegal immigration.

- It is a calamity.

They are turning America into a refugee camp.

And the Biden administration is not just allowing this,

they are encouraging it through their behavior.

- You'll see in 12

to 15,000 illegal immigrants a day coming across our border.

- This is not an immigration issue.

This is a mass migration.

- As an example, the Del Rio Bridge incident,

we had thousands of migrant

and illegal aliens taking shelter under a bridge.

It was a humanitarian crisis,

and it really put a strain on the men

and women in Department of Homeland Security.

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- Yeah, so this is the closest we can get to the fence here.

We're actually in Sunland Park, New Mexico.

This is the only thing that divides us

from Mexico right now.

You can see, there's families there in their houses.

What's kind of crazy about this fence is that some

of these guys that are smuggling people across,

they'll climb this fence, and like a lumberjack,

they'll use their belts and stuff like that.

They'll climb up to a point where you can't climb no more.

Then they'll have like a makeshift rope ladder.

They'll throw it over, the ladder falls on the other side.

If there's no Border Patrol in the area, sometimes,

you'll have up to 15, 20 people

and like in less than 30 minutes, climb over this fence.

- This powerful new video,

it shows more than 100 migrants climbing

over the border wall.

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- Believe it or not, there's sensors here,

and we're walking.

It'll sense us, and it'll send an alarm to the main hub.

So, they'll send the team out,

"Hey, go see there's a, we gotta hit at Zone 357,"

and this looks like daytime at night

'cause it's so lit.

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That's tough. (laughs)

It's not a flimsy fence, that's for sure.

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- The border crisis last time was

a national security issue, and it still is today.

- [Reporter] Border Patrol just doesn't have the resources

or the infrastructure down here to handle crowds this big.

- Our Border Patrol stations, our ICE facilities,

were just so overwhelmed and crowded.

It put a strain on our vetting process.

And when you don't do proper vetting,

that's when real security threats begin to surface.

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- All right, good morning everybody.

Today's primary target is a MS-13 member.

He crossed the border a couple years ago.

We've seen him leave anywhere

between like seven and 7:30.

I have somebody out there with eyes on the vehicle.

If I could have you guys set up south at the Sinclair,

I'll take the primary eye.

Al's our medic, so if we need anything,

he's your guy.

Let's be safe. Let's get out there.

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(operator vocalizing)

(agent mutters)

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This area we're going to, it's a high-crime area.

We actually have a lot of targets there

that we've arrested in the past, and future targets.

We'll see if we get any excitement afterwards.

Right in here is the apartment complex,

and we're gonna swing around and get the eye.

So we have about six units staged in different areas.

We always have one person that's the eye

that's watching the target,

so that depending on the route, somebody can intercept it.

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(radio beeps)

All right, guys, I'm set up on the eye.

I'll let you guys know once there's movement.

And we got a male with a lunch bag.

It's like tanned pants, black tank top.

Tony, can you see if you can get an ID?

- [Tony] He's headed to the tango vehicle.

About to get on the driver's side.

- Yeah, copy, looks like he is getting

to the driver's side of the tango vehicle.

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Looks like my guy.

- [Tony] He's moving west through the alley.

- Westbound through the alley going towards 28th.

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- [Tony] FYI, he has his window open.

- Yeah, it looks like him.

He is in the dark-blue sedan behind the white pickup truck.

All right, go, it looks like he's gonna signal North

on 28th, passing the Bridge.

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(vehicle engine accelerates)

- Westbound Cedar. (radio beeps)

(vehicle whooshing)

Next major is gonna be Westbound.

(vehicle engine accelerates)

- Can you initiate before he gets to the freeway?

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- [Tony] All right, initiating now.

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(hand knocking) (vehicles whooshing)

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We're stopped on Washington.

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(doors clicking)

(freeway ambience)

(speaker speaks in foreign language)

(speaker continues speaking in foreign language)

- This guy, on paper, is a known criminal and a gang member.

So we have to treat him like he's potentially dangerous.

- Clear.

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- So we got our guy, everybody's safe.

There was no incidents.

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So now we're gonna step back up for that other target

in that same apartment complex.

See if we go two-for-two today.

- [Tony] He came out of the apartment.

He resembled him, but he was wearing a hat

and his head was down.

Hard to tell if it's the target.

But the tag's positive.

It's gonna be a goldish van and it's gonna be a Westbound.

- So that van matches the vehicle plate of the target.

We're gonna go if that's him. (radio beeps)

Copy, when it's safe to do so,

we can take him down after they turn.

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(anonymous sighs)

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Yeah, he's right there.

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(safety belt clattering)

- All right, showtime.

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(doors clicking)

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That's him.

- Bring up cup.

- That's him, guys.

His next target is what we call final order.

That means the judge already ordered her removed,

so we don't need to put him in proceedings.

He has a criminal history that involves larceny,

battery, and robbery.

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Good job. (indistinct) (fists bump)

- The immigration court backlog is huge.

- [Reporter] Immigration courts are already faced

more than one and a half million cases

with some migrants waiting five years for a hearing.

- During the last administration,

I saw almost 15 million people enter the country

without status, and be released into the US

while awaiting their court hearings.

- Over the last 90 days, 617,000 total encounters,

186,000 were expelled,

70% of the people were released into the US

to await a court date...

- Trying to get all those individuals

into court was a huge challenge to all of us.

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- [Operator] Santiago, radio check.

(radio beeps) - Copy.

(radio clicks)

So today we are in Kent, Washington.

We're gonna be observing vehicles coming outta

an apartment complex, and we have 13 targets.

We are looking for aliens with prior removal orders.

A lot of them has DUI,

and one of them has aggravated assault.

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- [Operator] Team 1, we got target number nine,

heading Westbound.

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- [Operator 2] Which way did they go?

- [Operator] Took a right at the light.

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- When they made the vehicle stop,

I'm gonna go to the passenger side.

Hopefully, they don't take off running or crazy stuff.

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Perfect, so they just pulling over to a parking lot here.

(vehicle whooshing)

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(door clicking)

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- This is what I got, boss.

- No, it's the same last name but different person.

- So they'RE not the target?

- No, it's the target vehicle, but not the target.

- Yeah.

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(speakers speaking in foreign language)

- Okay. The main target was not in the vehicle.

But the passenger admitted that he was born in Mexico.

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Lemme go there.

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(speakers continue speaking in foreign language)

- Let's take him into custody.

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- The main driver, he admitted to me that he was in the US

for about 18 to 19 years.

(speakers speaking in foreign language)

I think we need to take him in.

- The current immigration court backlog is over 3.7 million,

but unfortunately, we have court cases being pushed out all

the way to 2036, allowing people 12 years, 14 years

to live the American dream, unfortunately, illegally,

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- I receive a phone call from one of the officer

that an illegal alien has an appointment

for 11 o'clock today, and we're gonna meet him there

because he has a final order for removal.

We don't really know if they're gonna comply or not,

vote for officer safety.

We always be prepared.

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(radio beeps) - We got a male leaving.

(suspense music)

- He's right there. - Yeah, don't look.

Don't look, don't look.

I'm just going to pretend like I'm going

to the attorney here.

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- [Agent] Vince is walking up to the front with the BP guys.

We should drive up as soon as he walks out.

Oh, he is running. He's running!

- Go, go, go. - I'm gonna follow the car.

- Go, go, go. - Follow the car.

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(wheels screeching)

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(agents indistinct talking)

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(wheels screeching)

- Stop, police!

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Stop!

- Down, stop, down!

- Get down! Get down!

(siren wailing)

Get down.

Woo! Hoo!

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- Get him up, come out.

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Hey, we are ICE, and we have a warrant for your arrest.

You understand?

The subject has a final order of removal,

and we're taking him into custody for removal.

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- So this is a very quiet suburban part

of Metairie, Louisiana.

We do have a lot of illegal aliens that do live in the area.

We've had a lot

of criminal alien arrests that we've made out here.

- [Agent] She drives a white Accord,

so if it's parked out there, she's probably there.

- [Agent 2] - Yeah, that Accord's right in front

of the house.

- [Agent] She supposedly has three small kids

here in the US as well.

- [Agent 3] How do y'all wanna handle that

if she's there by herself?

And these kids are there.

- [Agent] She has family here.

We'll give them to the family.

- [Agent 3] Just a heads up with her, too.

She's got some kind of mental health issues.

Last year, she tried to jump off the Huey P

with her kid in her hand.

- Her criminal history includes aggravated battery

with a dangerous weapon, home invasion, simple battery,

and prostitution.

And we just deported this woman in May of 2025

to her country, and we received word

that she already came back

and is illegally back in the country.

- [Agent] Yeah, I'm gonna follow him

for a little longer.

Like I said, I was going to have JPO knock on the door.

- All right, so we're gonna get some local law enforcement

assistance making a knock at this door.

All right, here we go.

- [Agent] All right, heavy-set Hispanic male.

You all wanna grab him right now.

No Intel on whether the female's inside the house or not.

- [Brian] The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office is

a great partner here.

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The female target is still wanted in Jefferson Parish

for prostitution, and that is the interest

that the local law enforcement has helping us out.

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- Can we go in the house then?

- Door's open.

- [Brian] If she's there, she's gonna be arrested

and taken into custody for that,

and we'll file an ICE detainer with Jefferson Parish.

(speakers speaking in foreign language)

- Open.

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Does he give us permission to enter?

- Go ahead, man.

Go in. - Okay, go ahead.

- [Brian] And once they release her

or she finishes her sentence for that charge,

we'll take her into custody and deport her.

So it might not be today,

but she's gonna go to jail on that warrant,

(speakers speaking in foreign language)

So, this gentleman says

that he's the target's mother's boyfriend.

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We needed him to be able to do our law enforcement action

to move his vehicle.

He did that again in the company

of suspected illegal aliens.

So we detained him and asked him some questions.

This was a person that we saw as authorized to give consent,

and he gave us consent to complete our investigation.

So we got our target safely in custody,

and everything turned out well.

- He's good, Brian?

Is he good? - Yeah, free to go.

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In this case, it helps to have full cooperation of state

and local law enforcement working together with ICE.

They knew that they have an interest, and they still do.

We probably are gonna quickly process her

for removal proceedings

and she probably is gonna get arrested

on the prostitution charges and go to jail.

They're aware of that being a win-win for public safety.

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- So we're headed to our office.

We've got a person who's been ordered removed

and he's previously convicted of aggravated assault.

We've called him into the office today

because we're gonna take him into custody,

and affect his removal.

He doesn't know that he's gonna be arrested.

In my experience, if you tell a person you're going

to arrest 'em, then they'll cut the bracelet off,

and they'll become a fugitive, and we have to go find them.

This is a ankle bracelet, it's a GPS monitor.

So I've found 'em in Porta John's.

I've found 'em at the side of lakes,

stitches on the roadway.

That's the reason we don't tell 'em.

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- I'm sure you are aware

that you do have a final order from 2002.

You filed a motion to reconsider that order,

and it was denied.

- [Migrant] Back then, I didn't want to hire a lawyer.

If I hire a lawyer, pay him $700.

- Once that conviction was made,

that really messed up your permanent residence status.

- Where I be going, to Laos?

- Our office, we don't make that determination.

- [Migrant] I've been here 43 years, I'm not gonna run away.

Just give me two months.

- Judge's ordered you removed or just execute that order.

- [Migrant] But yeah, that's like 20-something years ago,

you know, and I haven't committed more crime,

and I've been doing good.

- The story hit a lot when the reality sets in,

and it's like, "I can get a plane ticket,

I can leave on my own,"

but there's no assurance to us that

that order would be fulfilled.

He knows now he's gonna go into detention.

He's had the order of removal since 2002.

So, he sought legal counsel, filed some appeals,

and the judge has not reversed their decision

despite those appeals.

So now, we're fulfilling that order of removal.

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- We don't want to have people in custody.

We wanna get people back

to their home countries safely, humanely.

But unfortunately, we have so many recalcitrant countries

that won't take their individuals back.

As a result, many people with final orders

of removal remain here in limbo.

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- For today's target, we're gonna go

after a subject who's a citizen of Vietnam.

Two counts of sexual assault on a child, and the third count

for aggravated sexual assaults of a child.

We're gonna take him into custody.

We're gonna put him at the camp

until he can be removed from the United States

- Every single morning, we brief.

We have at least 20 teams out there operating

every single day, surveilling, making these arrests.

This one, it's a sex offender,

so it's a big priority for us.

- [Operator] 10-4, sir, just sent you a report.

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- He's got a long rap sheet.

He's got a charge for a weapon violation

that he received a conviction for.

He's resisted arrest.

He's also had the very serious charge

of sexual assault of a child.

That was his stepdaughter.

And on top of that, most recently, he actually failed

to register as a sex offender.

It's definitely someone we really want out of our community.

The fact that we have criminals like this,

and we can't just send 'em back, it's unbelievable.

For years, this individual's been just roaming our streets.

That was the problem we had been having up until this point.

Foreign governments haven't been collaborating with us.

One of those governments was Vietnam.

Before we had to release 'em

because they weren't just shooting a travel document.

So we're pretty much stuck with them until we're able

to negotiate with the receiving country, right,

to accept them.

Officers that have come across him,

they always say, "He acts like he's untouchable."

So he's gonna be a little surprised right now

when he sees us.

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- [Agent] All right, I just sent the address

where he's at right now.

Apparently, he's in the building, so we'll head that way.

I'm sure he'll be leaving here in the next two hours.

- We have him on a tracker, so we know where he is at.

He's actually at his place of employment.

It's a nail salon shop.

- [Agent] All right, guys, what I sent you right now is

the photo from yesterday's check-in,

So we have the most recent photo that we can get.

- Overall surveillance is an art.

It's not simply showing up

and "Oh, I'm just gonna park in front of your business."

No, you have to be strategic, figuring out the patterns

of your target, what time they go to work,

who else lives in the house, are there children in there?

Because it's very important to us, right?

- [Agent] All right, guys, so it looks

like it's a strong possibility

that he's probably gonna exit from the back.

When he does, we're gonna try and get him

before he gets in the vehicle in that back alley.

It's gonna be us and US Marshals on this side.

- I'm right here to your right.

Because he does have a weapons charge,

what we're gonna do is we're gonna get him

outside the business.

We know he is here.

We see his vehicle out there,

but we're trying to make sure we get him

before he gets into that vehicle.

Because once someone has a vehicle,

they could use that as a weapon.

- [Agent] We got a possible coming around the corner there.

Target's gonna be at the red truck.

- [Agent 2] 10-4. We're approaching around the truck.

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- Get out of the car.

- Do you have anything on you

that can hurt me right now?

- No, you keep grabbing for stuff.

You can't be doing that.

- Come on. Come on.

We're gonna put you in a vehicle right now.

Get into here.

Where is your wife at right now?

- She's inside right there.

- She works in the business, too?

- Yeah. - Okay. All right.

Let's go. - Can I go talk to my wife?

- Call her right now, get in the car.

We'll give you a phone. Call her right now.

- Okay. - Okay.

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- Right now we have a real high volume

of detainees in our custody.

So we have to constantly be assessing

what facility we're gonna be sending a certain person to.

But the crime scene's been convicted of are the most serious

that we see, right?

So there's no way he's gonna come back lawfully

into the country again.

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- Previous four years, we don't know exactly

who came into this country.

You can hear anything from 15 million up to 22 million.

And the sad fact is we just don't know exactly

how many people came into the country

when our border was so porous.

Under the last administration,

ICE has over 1.5 million individuals that have a final order

of deportation, as well as criminal aliens

that are arrested every day in communities

that have then re-released to sanctuary jurisdictions.

The number is staggering.

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- [Reporter] Sanctuary cities protect

and shield illegal aliens from deportation.

- These criminal aliens, if they're not turned to ICE,

can just go back and keep re-offending.

That is a huge public safety threat.

- You're cowards!

- This is what we deal with on a day-to-day basis.

- We never know how an arrest is gonna go down.

- [Investigator] It is that fight-or-flight mode.

- Open the door! - Open the door!

- Open the door. - Open the door, now!

- [Operator] That's him. Move in quickly.

- Don't move!

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- So, welcome to Pennsylvania.

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