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PULSE POINTS

❓WHAT HAPPENED: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 65 illegal aliens in Connecticut during a four-day operation named “Operation Broken Trust,” targeting serious offenders and transnational criminal activity.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: ICE Boston, federal law enforcement partners including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Marshals Service, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), targeting illegal immigrants.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The operation took place over four days in Connecticut, following the state’s expansion of its “Trust Act” sanctuary policies in May.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Sanctuary legislation like Connecticut’s Trust Act only endangers the communities it claims to protect… The state of Connecticut is a safer place thanks to the hard work and determination of the men and women of ICE,” said Patricia H. Hyde, acting Field Office Director of ICE Boston.

🎯IMPACT: The arrests snared migrants with criminal convictions, including for sexual assault, drug trafficking, child exploitation, and gang-related offenses.

The Boston Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has executed a four-day operation in Connecticut, resulting in the capture of 65 illegal aliens. ‘Operation Broken Trust’ targeted migrants engaged in transnational organized crime, other gang activities, and serious criminal offenses, including kidnapping, assault, drug trafficking, weapons violations, and sexual crimes. It was launched after Connecticut’s Democrat state government expanded its “Trust Act,” a sanctuary law that significantly restricts local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE.

Acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde condemned such sanctuary policies, declaring, “Sanctuary legislation like Connecticut’s Trust Act only endangers the communities it claims to protect. Such laws only force law enforcement professionals to release criminal alien offenders back into the very communities they have already victimized.” She emphasized that these policies compel ICE to carry out potentially dangerous at-large arrests within communities, because local authorities release wanted migrants instead of safely transferring them into federal custody.

Director Hyde highlighted the severity of the offenses the captured migrants committed, stating, “Make no mistake: Every person that we arrested are criminals and breaking federal law, but many of these individuals also victimized innocent people and traumatized communities—rapists, drug traffickers, child sex predators, and members of violent transnational criminal gangs.”

The operation was conducted in collaboration with ICE’s Hartford field office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

The Trump administration is signficantly expanding ICE’s detention capacity, with new facilities such as Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” and “Deportation Depot” and Nebraska’s “Cornusker Clink” opening at pace.

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