Trump administration planning to send hundreds of border agents to support ICE arrests in U.S. interior
Source: CBS News
Updated on: May 23, 2025 / 8:32 PM EDT
The Trump administration is planning to dispatch hundreds of border agents to different parts of the country so they can help Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest unauthorized immigrants in the U.S interior, three sources familiar with the plan told CBS News.
The plan would be the latest escalation in the Trump administration's aggressive efforts to muster the vast resources and personnel of agencies across the federal government to support ICE in its bid to carry out what the president has vowed will be the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.
The effort is expected to involve around 500 personnel from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, including green-uniformed Border Patrol agents in charge of interdicting the illicit entry of migrants and drugs, the sources said, requesting anonymity to discuss internal governments plans that have not been announced.
The sources said the CBP teams would also include members of the agency's Office of Field Operations, which oversees legal entry points into the U.S., and Air and Marine Operations, a specialized law enforcement unit with maritime and aerial assets. CBP agents and officers assigned to the effort are expected to assist their counterparts in ICE's 25 field offices by supporting immigration enforcement operations targeting immigrants in the country illegally, the sources added. The effort could start as early as next week, two of the sources said.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ice-arrests-border-agents/
This is an update to an earlier story.
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Since they aren't finding people "at the border", they are combing through businesses and schools in cities, towns, and rural areas (including farms), rounding up people, illegally detaining them, and then illegally shipping them away. In some cases, they are setting "traps" to have immigrants come to an immigration office to "check-in", and then will arrest and "disappear" them.
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