Largest ever ICE operation results in nearly 1,500 illegals arrested in blue state

Operation Patriot, the largest ever ICE operation, resulted successful the apprehension of astir 1,500 illegals, including murderers, rapists, cause traffickers and kid enactment predators, successful the heavy bluish sanctuary city-heavy authorities of Massachusetts.

Operation Patriot concluded connected Saturday aft netting 1,461 amerciable aliens passim the Greater Boston country and the authorities of Massachusetts, which includes galore sanctuary jurisdictions.

Sources astatine ICE told Fox News that 790 of those arrested had transgression convictions oregon charges and 277 had last removal oregon deportation orders. The sources said that each the targeted criminals were roaming the streets of Massachusetts cities freely earlier being apprehended.

The cognition ran passim May and included ICE teams from different states successful the Northeast and authorities from the FBI, DEA, and ATF.

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Illegal migrants arrested successful Boston (Fox News)

Fox News was embedded with ICE Boston connected Thursday arsenic portion of this operation. While Fox News was embedded with ICE, agents arrested a murderer, 2 kid rapists, including 1 surviving adjacent to a playground, 1 fentanyl trafficker, 1 big rapist, and 1 kid intersexual assaulter, each wrong the span of a fewer hours.

Prior to this, the largest ICE cognition was Operation Tidal Wave successful Florida, which netted 1,120 arrests. Fox News was told Operation Patriot was importantly much hard because, dissimilar Florida, ICE received nary section assistance from Massachusetts sanctuary jurisdictions.

Sources said the cognition was successful nonstop effect to leaders successful the metropolis of Boston and Massachusetts refusing to cooperate with ICE.

The sources said "hundreds" of the arrested targets had been released by section sanctuary jurisdictions with ICE detainers ignored. ICE besides said it encountered regular interference from anti-ICE activistic groups passim Massachusetts.

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A Salvadoran amerciable migrant convicted of kid rape who went to situation and was deported successful 2017. He was nabbed surviving right next to a children’s playground. (Fox News)

Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey has responded to ICE’s operations successful her authorities with outrage. Healey took to societal media connected Sunday evening to demand answers aft ICE agents arrested 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes, who was an amerciable and a inferior astatine Milford High School successful Milford, Massachusetts. 

In her post, Healey says she is "disturbed and outraged" and that she wants answers instantly explaining wherefore the pupil was taken into migration enforcement’s custody.

Healey asserted that "the Trump Administration continues to make fearfulness successful our communities, and it’s making america each little safe."

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Speaking during a property league connected Monday, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons commented connected the absorption from Massachusetts leaders, saying: "If sanctuary cities would alteration their policies and crook these convulsive transgression aliens implicit to america into our custody alternatively of releasing them into the public, we would not person to spell retired to the communities and bash this."

Lyons said the cognition "just showed we request to travel backmost and we're going to support coming backmost due to the fact that ICE is going to marque definite that we support our assemblage harmless and support our vicinity harmless from these enactment offenders and these transgression aliens."

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An amerciable migrant connected El Salvador's astir wanted database is arrested. He has an Interpol Red Notice for aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and robbery. (Fox News)

The property league was held the aforesaid time that an amerciable alien successful Massachusetts named Lorenzo Lopez Alcario was arraigned connected charges of raping a kid with force. A transcript of the charges obtained by Fox News Digital alleges that the kid was tied during the rape.

Commenting connected the arraignment and connected Operation Patriot, Jon Fetherston, a erstwhile Massachusetts migrant structure director, told Fox News Digital that Democratic Governor Maura Healey’s absorption to national migration enforcement operations is "not lone unsafe for ICE agents, it’s unsafe for each of us."

Fetherston added that Healey’s policies are "creating a clime of lawlessness, wherever adjacent convicted criminals are shielded from national enforcement."

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"That’s not compassion — it’s recklessness," helium said. 

Healey's bureau did not instantly respond to a petition by Fox News Digital for comment.

Fox News Digital's Christina Shaw contributed to this report