Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested a Middle Eastern immigrant with suspected ties to terrorism in the first week of President Donald Trump's mass deportation operation.
Hundreds of icy arrests since Trump was sworn in last Monday include a Jordanian linked to the Islamic State, or ISIS, and a Turkish national who is a “known or suspected terrorist,” the administration says. said through. white house and ice statement. This comes after Biden administration border officials met At least 382 illegal immigrants on the terrorist watch list and at least 99 released into the country.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, @icegov The White House told the X-Post on Sunday that a “Jordanian national suspected of having ties to ISIS” had been arrested the day before. The suspected Turkish terrorist is 30-year-old Gokhan Adrigzel, who has not yet appeared ICE Detention Database.
Making America Safe Again: Jordanian national suspected of having ties to ISIS was arrested by Ice Buffalo/Rouses Point on January 24, 2025. pic.twitter.com/l0s98jdjya
– White House (@WhiteHouse) January 26, 2025
The Ice news organization and its Buffalo, New York, field office arrested Jordanian but did not immediately respond to inquiries from the Daily Call News Foundation.
Ice made 956 arrests Sunday, more than triple the daily arrests under the Biden administration. Trump's immigration officials have made more than 2,000 arrests since he took office. (Related: Daily ice arrests under Trump already exceed numbers during the Biden era)
2025 Department of Homeland Security Homeland Threat Assessment warned In October, “individuals with ties to terrorism continue efforts to enter the United States through migration flows and a complex border security environment.” He warned that the Islamist group was sending agents across the border to capture Hezbollah members who later tried to cross.
Additionally, experts have sounded the alarm in potential ISIS revival around the world after a US citizen and military veteran rammed a truck through a New Year's parade in New Orleans, killing 15 people before being fatally shot by police. The FBI found an ISIS flag and an explosive device in his vehicle.
Illegal migration has exacerbated the problem since the news broke last June. DHS has identified more than 400 immigrants who entered the United States through ISIS-linked smuggling networks. The agency announced in late October that it had deported ISIS-linked Tajik Nationals identified in the summer, but did not specify how many.
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