SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is working a subject workplace in San Francisco finishing up President Donald Trump’s Enforcement and Elimination Operations.
Orestes Cruz, ERO San Francisco Performing Area Workplace Director stated, “ERO officers in the San Francisco area of operations are committed to enforcing our nation’s immigration laws against violent criminals, sex offenders, and others who pose a threat to public safety.”
Current sightings of ICE brokers within the subject have been confirmed in San Francisco and San Jose. Federal officers didn’t launched details about why brokers had been in SF on Friday and in San Jose on Sunday, nor stated if anybody was taken into custody for deportation.
A confirmed arrest occurred on January 23, when brokers from ICE ERO San Francisco discovered a Guatemalan man, Juan Velasquez-Francisco, in Sacramento. Federal immigration officers stated Velasquez-Francisco entered the U.S. illegally, and his felony historical past included a DUI conviction and felony baby intercourse crimes.
Velasquez-Francisco was an “illegally present Guatemalan national convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor. He will remain detained with ICE until his removal from the United States,” ICE officers wrote.
Cruz stated, “This arrest is just one example highlighting the work ICE ERO officers perform each day to make our communities safer.”
Group leaders stated ICE brokers had been in downtown San Francisco on Friday focusing on janitors who work in downtown workplace buildings.
“The janitors who work in these buildings clean our city’s offices. They go to work each day, pay taxes (and) raise their kids. They’re the salt of the earth,” State Sen. Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco) wrote.
“Trump says he’s only targeting criminals. That’s a bald-faced lie,” Weiner wrote.
ICE brokers had been additionally noticed Sunday on Story Highway in East San Jose, the place a big immigrant inhabitants lives, town’s mayor stated. One other ICE operation was performed within the Capitol Park space. “Our office has confirmed ICE sightings in multiple locations,” San Jose Metropolis Councilman Peter Ortiz stated.
ERO’s workforce consists of greater than 7,700 legislation enforcement personnel who function throughout 25 home subject workplaces nationwide.
ICE brokers, together with different federal legislation enforcement companies, attend a pre-enforcement assembly on Jan. 26, 2025. (Christopher Dilts/ Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
ICE has arrested about 3,000 folks nationwide inside the previous three days, in response to the company’s X web page.
Every week into Donald Trump’s second presidency and his efforts to crack down on unlawful immigration, federal officers are working with a brand new sense of mission. “The worst go first,” stated Matt Elliston, director of ICE’s Baltimore subject workplace.
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Underneath Trump, ICE brokers can now arrest folks with out authorized standing in the event that they run throughout them whereas searching for migrants focused for removing. “Nobody has a free pass anymore,” Elliston stated.
On Tuesday, San Francisco Police Chief Invoice Scott emphasised that law enforcement officials and metropolis companies usually are not working with federal ICE authorities.
Scott stated at a information convention, “I want to make some things very clear. The San Francisco Police Department does not assist in immigration raids. Targeting immigrants who have built families, businesses, and homes here does not improve public safety. It does the exact opposite. It makes people fearful to report crimes. It makes children afraid to go to school, to the library, to the playgrounds. That’s not what we want.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
