ICE agents arrested more than 1,200 migrants in raids over the weekend
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A member of the Sinaloa cartel was arrested in Texas US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the weekend and was found to be carrying three rifles, two handguns and more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition, sources told Fox News.
The individual — who is from Mexico — was taken into custody in El Paso, the sources added. Across the US, the result was ICE operations last weekend in more than 1,000 arrests.
The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said last year that the US was facing “the most dangerous and deadly drug crisis” in its history with fentanyl and methamphetamine flowing across the border – and that “the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels are under attack.” heart of this crisis.”
“They operate clandestine laboratories in Mexico where they manufacture these drugs and then use their vast distribution networks to transport the drugs into the United States,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram wrote in her agency annual National Drug Threat Assessment.
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Handguns, rifles and ammunition were recovered over the weekend after ICE arrested a member of the Sinaloa cartel in El Paso, Texas, sources said.
“The Sinaloa cartel also uses border tunnels to smuggle drugs into the United States undetected,” she added. “Most of the tunnels were not built by the cartel, but are part of the sewerage and water supply systems of the border towns.”
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ICE agents knocked on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Ill., on Sunday, Jan. 26. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Last week, alleged Sinaloa cartel cell leader Octavio Leal-Hernandez, who is “believed to be responsible for smuggling large quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana into the United States from Mexico,” pleaded not guilty during a federal court appearance after being extradited from Mexico, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California said.
The arrest of the alleged Sinaloa member in El Paso comes as reports emerge that the Trump administration is pushing ICE to increase the number of arrests daily from several hundred to between at least 1200 to 1500 people.
An ICE agent waits in a vehicle during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Ill., on Sunday. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Citing four sources who spoke on condition of anonymity about an alleged internal conversation with ICE officials on Saturday, The Washington Post first reported the new target, categorizing the 1,200 to 1,500 daily targets as “quotas,” though a Homeland Department spokesman said the insurance is for Fox News said, “Targets is the correct phrase.”
Fox News’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
