A construction worker has challenged President Donald Trump to arrest and deport him as immigration officials prepare what has been described as one of the largest deportation operations in US history.
The apparent migrant worker voiced his anger over Trump’s immigration policies in a confrontational TikTok video posted this week.
Wearing a hardhat bearing the A&M Contractors logo, the laborer taunted the president: ‘Daddy Trump, you wanna take us the f*** out of here? Come do this s**t, then.’
He also questioned who would build and maintain American homes and infrastructure if undocumented workers in the construction industry were deported.
‘Look who the f*** built your house, look who the f*** built your streets,’ he said, before adding: ‘Come get it, b**ch.’
The worker’s current employer is not known, although his profile suggests he has worked on construction projects in the Greater Houston, Texas, area.
His identity and immigration status had not been confirmed, and further details about his employment were not immediately available.
DailyMail.com has contacted Houston-based A&M Contractors for comment.
Homeland Security agents, the Houston division of the Drug Enforcement Agency and other federal agents carry out an immigration raid on Sunday
Migrants try to enter the United States undetected, through a hole in a section of the US-Mexico border wall, in Sunland Park, New Mexico on January 28, 2025
Since returning to the White House, Trump has signed a series of executive orders targeting illegal immigration, including measures intended to increase deportations of migrants living in the US without legal status.
During the first week of Trump’s second term, the Department of Homeland Security said approximately 7,300 people of various nationalities had been deported.
Daily arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have climbed to roughly 1,000 to 1,200 in recent days—well above the fiscal year 2024 average of 311.
ICE reported 969 arrests nationwide on Monday, but border czar Tom Homan said the administration still needs to accelerate its deportation efforts.
Although Homan described the arrest figures as ‘unprecedented,’ he said officials must ‘open the aperture up’ and pursue even more deportations.
Speaking to Fox News host Jesse Watters, Homan called the first week ‘a great start’ and said illegal border crossings had fallen under Trump’s policies from about 10,000 a day to fewer than 600.
‘It’s great, it’s good, but we’re not finished and we need more deportations,’ Homan said. ‘A lot more deportations and that’s what we’re working on.’
His comments came days after he predicted that arrests and deportations would continue to rise as the administration expands its campaign against illegal immigration.
In the first week of Trump’s second term, the Department of Homeland Security reported deporting some 7,300 people of various nationalities. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests have reached about 1,000-1,200 per day in recent days, far above the daily average of 311 in fiscal year 2024
One of two documented immigrants with prior convictions detained by US Immigrations and Customs (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents, walks handcuffed as an agent holds his arm, at a Home Depot parking lot in Tucson, Arizona on January 26, 2025
Trump has defended the crackdown by pointing to the millions of migrants who entered the country during Democrat Joe Biden’s presidency. Critics, however, warn that the policy could disrupt businesses and split families apart.
His administration reversed Biden-era guidance that limited immigration arrests involving people without criminal convictions. It also directed other federal law enforcement agencies to support immigration operations and ended restrictions on enforcement at schools, churches, hospitals and other sensitive locations.
‘All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came,’ Trump said during his January 20 inauguration speech. He described illegal immigration as an ‘invasion’ and declared a national emergency.
Trump also announced a broad suspension of asylum for migrants he said were ‘engaged in the invasion across the southern border.’
He directed the Defense Department to prioritize border security, including construction of additional wall sections, expanding detention capacity and helping transport migrants.
The president also authorized the defense secretary to deploy troops to the southern border.
Marines with the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, deploy concertina wire as they re-enforce the border wall, January 25, 2025 near San Ysidro, California
United States Marines unloading concertina wire from an MV-22B Osprey for use at the southern border at Brown Field Municipal Airport in Otay Mesa, California. They were deployed to the border area following executive orders signed by Trump last week
About 1,500 active-duty troops were sent to the nearly 2,000-mile border this week, including 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton in California.
Thousands of ICE officers have also been deployed to the San Diego border area as officials prepare to return as many as ‘100,000 immigrants’ to Mexico and Central America in what could become one of the biggest migrant raids in US history.
DailyMail.com can now reveal that the operation has reportedly been joined by what was described as a ‘mile-long line of DHS trucks and CBP.’
A White House intelligence source said: ‘There is a mile-long line of DHS trucks and CBP in front of Camp Pendleton right now, ready to carry out the biggest illegal immigrant operation in recent history.’
The source added: ‘The West Coast is this week and the East Coast is next week. It is about to get crazy in California. They need to fill 100,000 spots,’ referring to the directive to make arrests.
The source said those detained would be sent to Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Deportation flights between the US and Colombia resumed on Tuesday after a weekend diplomatic dispute offered an early indication of how Trump might respond to countries that resist large-scale returns of migrants who entered the US illegally.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said earlier this week that four flights carrying deportees into Mexico City had used civilian aircraft.
Guatemala has not publicly protested the removals, and at least three US military flights carrying deportees have landed there over the past week.
Migrants descending from a Colombian Air Force plane after being deported from the US in Bogota, Colombia on January 28, 2025
Migrants are escorted across the Hidalgo International border Bridge as they are deported under Title 8, a law that allows for immediate deportation after crossing into the US without authorization, in McAllen, Texas on January 27, 2025
Trump has additionally suspended refugee admissions to the United States, canceling all refugee travel, including plans for nearly 1,660 Afghans who had been approved for resettlement.
He revived the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, under which asylum seekers who are not Mexican must wait in Mexico while their US immigration cases are decided.
The president directed the attorney general to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes such as murder when those offenses are eligible for capital punishment.
He also issued an order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born in the US when neither parent is an American citizen or lawful permanent resident.
Trump has further begun the process of labeling criminal cartels foreign terrorist organizations and invoking a 1798 statute, the Alien Enemies Act, against foreign gang members.
