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Fox News ‘embedded’ with federal agents for Boston area immigrant raids
The reported arrests came days after President Donald Trump vowed to begin sending millions of undocumented immigrants “back to the places from which they came.”
Federal officials in the Boston area have reportedly arrested several undocumented immigrants whose criminal backgrounds put them on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s radar, according to Fox News, which tagged along on Wednesday’s raids.
Caught on camera, the reported arrests came just days after President Donald Trump took office and vowed in his inaugural address to begin sending “millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.”
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Fox News said it witnessed ICE Boston make eight arrests and take multiple purported gang members and violent crime suspects into custody. ICE arrested another two people off camera, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported.
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WCVB and NBC10 Boston also reported ICE activity around East Boston and Chelsea on Wednesday. ICE did not respond to a request for confirmation Thursday, nor did the agency answer emailed questions about how or why Fox News came to “embed” with immigration officials.
Melugin reported that ICE has adopted a “worst first” approach, targeting “the worst of the worst criminal alien offenders first.” He said the individuals taken into custody Wednesday included members of MS-13, an international criminal gang, and some individuals who had Interpol Red Notices out for their arrest.
In the Fox segment, one man — purportedly a gang member from Haiti with 17 criminal convictions — could be heard yelling, “I’m not going back to Haiti” and “F*** Trump, you feel me? Yo, Biden forever, bro” as he was taken into custody.
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“I’m glad we’re deporting him,” Vice President JD Vance wrote on X Thursday, sharing a clip from the Fox News report.
According to Fox, Wednesday’s arrests included at least two immigrants who were allegedly released from custody previously under sanctuary policies.
“Today we took several significant public safety threats out of our communities,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde told Melugin. “Unfortunately, a lot were released by sanctuary policies, but we’re here to tell the commonwealth and the rest of the country that we’re going to find them whether they’re released or not.”
Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, told Fox News in a separate interview Wednesday that ICE officials arrested “over 308 … serious criminals” across the country in a 24-hour span.
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