The newly released video shows Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Seattle, Washington, is preparing to throw illegal and undocumented groups of immigrants at their country.
Ice Air Operations (IAO) is ice air transport and promotes the movement and removal of illegal aliens through commercial airlines and charter flights.
Iao recently returned an undocumented group of aliens from Seattle to their home country, and Ice Seattle shared a video of the ordeal.
The video begins with an Ice Enforcement and Removal Operation (ERO) agent standing in an airport tarmac as other agents pull a chain attached to handcuffs from a plastic wooden frame.
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ICE is flying to take illegal immigrants from the United States to their homeland. (Ice Seattle)
The video also shows several illegal immigrants being chained together and handcuffed before boarding the plane.
In an X's post, Ice Seattle said that undocumented aliens are flying out of Seattle as part of the process of bringing them back to their home country. The video doesn't make clear where undocumented immigrants are flying.
There were 11,791 internal ice halts from January 20th to February 8th, compared to 4,969 cases in the same period in 2024. This is a 137% increase.
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ICE is flying to take illegal immigrants from the United States to their homeland. (Ice Seattle)
Arrests of foreigners with criminal records have skyrocketed nearly 100% from 4,526 in the same period in 2024 to 8,993 Trump this year.
Meanwhile, the arrests of fugitives increased from 2,164 to 5,538. This is a 156% increase. Arrests of criminal foreigners in local prisons increased by 59%.
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ICE is flying to take illegal immigrants from the United States to their homeland. (Ice Seattle)
The data is the latest indication that a full push to strengthen illegal immigrant arrests and deportation is having a major impact, including the Trump administration's loosening ice agents imposed by the previous administration.
The administration says it is trying to target “the worst and worst,” highlighting that it focuses on criminal illegal immigrants and gang members, but that no one has been excluded from the fight.
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ICE is flying to take illegal immigrants from the United States to their homeland. (Ice Seattle)
The administration uses Guantanamo Bay to house up to 30,000 detainees and will leave multiple flights last week. Meanwhile, the DOJ has announced legal action over the Sanctuary Act against New York and Chicago.
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These moves came after numerous moves in the first few days of the administration. President Donald Trump has signed an order to declare a national emergency at the border, resume construction of border walls and end Biden-era parole policies. The Department of Homeland Security then removed the “sensitive location” restrictions placed on agents by the Biden administration, and ended the temporary protected status of some Venezuelan citizens.
Adam Shaw of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
