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01/28/2025

"Nobody Gets a Free Pass"

ICE officers are operating with a new sense of mission

A week into Donald Trump's second presidency and his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, federal officers are operating with a new sense of mission, knowing that "nobody gets a free pass anymore."

A dozen officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gathered before dawn Monday in a Maryland parking lot, then fanned out to the Washington suburbs to find their targets: someone wanted in El Salvador for homicide, a person convicted of armed robbery, a migrant found guilty of possessing child sexual abuse material and another with drug and gun convictions. All were in the country illegally.

"The worst, go first," said Matt Elliston, director of ICE's Baltimore field office, of the agency's enforcement priorities.

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