Immigration authorities did not say whether anyone was detained or what kinds of offenses the people sought Sunday were suspected of doing.
A law enforcement official walks past a transport bus used to carry migrants in custody before the departure of a chartered plane on May 18, 2019. Four federal agencies conducted an immigration enforcement operation in Austin and San Antonio on Sunday, federal officials said.Agents from multiple federal agencies carried out immigration enforcement operations in Austin and San Antonio on Sunday, federal officials said.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with the Drug Enforcement Agency, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives collaborated on “enhanced targeted operations” in both cities, an ICE spokesperson said. A similar operation took place Sunday morning in the Rio Grande Valley,
The spokesperson said the operations were to “enforce U.S. immigration law and preserve public safety and national security by keeping potentially dangerous criminal aliens out of our communities.” The official did not say what kind of offenses the targeted individuals were suspected of committing or whether anyone was detained.ICE was conducting an operation in the Austin area on Sunday afternoon through a spokesperson for the DEA’s Houston division.
“We got information that we had to mobilize, so we mobilized,” Sparks told The Texas Tribune. “The majority of our agents assisted.”Neither ICE nor the DEA answered questions about the scale of the operations. Spokespeople for the Travis and Bexar counties’ sheriff’s offices said they had not been notified of the operations. A spokesperson for U.S. Rep.
The Trump administration has also directed federal officials to investigate and potentially prosecute local officials who interfere with deportation efforts. Some local Texas officialsthey are ready to assist Trump, though they have offered scant details on how they would cooperate.
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