Deputizing Elvis -- Day 2 -- Trump 2.0 -- Part 3 -- January 22, 2025

Locator: 44748ICE.

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Later, 9:37 p.m. CT: in first 33 hours, ICE makes "hundreds of arrests," specifically more than 460. That's a good start.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in the first days of the Trump administration, has made for than 460 arrests of illegal immigrants, including those with criminal histories that include sexual assault, domestic violence and drugs and weapons crimes.

.... between midnight January 21, 2025, and 9 a.m. January 22, 2025, a 33-hour period, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested over 460 aliens that include criminal histories of sexual assault, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, drugs and weapons offenses, resisting arrest and domestic violence.

Agents arrested nationals from a slew of countries including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela. 

Arrests took place across the U.S. including Illinois, Utah, California, Minnesota, New York, Florida and Maryland.

This will start to become routine and the reporting will eventually turn simply to reporting numbers. ICE has four years. I think folks are going to be amazed at the crimes these folks committed and yet were allowed to walk free by local law enforcement. I wonder how Amy Klobuchar feels about this. My hunch: both "Morning Joe" and "The View" will avoid this issue, at least the specifics. And if they're worried about due process, there's room at G. Bay to hold them pending trial now that President Biden emptied those prisons. But they're not being re-arrested for their violent crimes, they're being arrested for being "here" illegally. 

Let's see. The US Senate has confirmed one of Trump's nominees. SecState.

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We're seeing an administration working / making news 24 / 7 and it's not going to quit any time soon. 

Now this, being reported at 9:40 p.m. ET, Wednesday night, January 22, 2025:

For all the folks who thought this was going to require more "man" power and more money --- not so fast. Wait until Trump deputizes ... well, I'm not going to say it. LOL. Except to say there are probably 1,600-some folks that would be more than happy to be so deputized.

Remember when Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley were apparently talking about some such law enforcement opportunity?

If one takes time to read the memo, it seems very, very appropriate and really nothing particularly new, but the headline will capture the imagination of the panel on "The View." 

From the memo and TWSJ:

The memo, sent by acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman, says DHS is granting immigration-enforcement authority to several agencies at the Justice Department, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshals Service. 

The memo also emphasizes that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents already possess immigration-arresting powers, known as Title 8 authority. Still, FBI agents traditionally steer clear of such work except where it intersects with their main mission of national security and other investigations. 

Though the memo doesn’t directly deputize those agents to assist with President Trump’s promised deportation campaign, administration officials are planning for the Justice Department to cooperate by lending some agents, a person familiar with the matter said. 

The Marshals Service may become involved in immigration-related cases if they overlap with federal fugitives or detention responsibilities. The ATF and DEA have historically not been involved in immigration enforcement, either, except where there are other gun or drug-trafficking violations. Officials in these agencies have long complained that they are already strapped for resources they need for their core missions of fighting violent crime and drug enforcement, and policing immigration violations would add more to their plates.