Bombshell leaked ICE memo reveals huge sweeping migrant crackdown in major city as immigration raids continue
A bombshell leaked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memo has revealed the next major migrant crackdown will sweep Los Angeles.
Federal law enforcement agents are poised to carry out a ‘large scale’ action in the California city before the end of this month, according to an internal government document seen by the Los Angeles Times.
President Donald Trump has ordered large-scale immigration operations across the country since he took office on January 20, but the incoming action will be the first to hit LA.
A federal law enforcement source said agents from the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles field offices are being called in to assist.
‘They needed more bodies,’ the official, who spoke anonymously for fear of retaliation, told the LA Times.
The official added that the timeframe for the raids could change due to the ‘chaotic’ approach the new Trump administration has shown during its first few weeks.
They also anticipated pushback from some of the agencies involved in the Democrat-led city, which could also slow the plans.
‘Just because certain information is being given doesn’t mean it’s the administration’s plan, because they know some agents are going to be resistant,’ the official said.
A bombshell leaked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memo has revealed the next major migrant crackdown will sweep Los Angeles (pictured)
Trump, who ran on a mass deportation platform, has made immigration his first order of business since assuming office with sweeping deportations across America
Marines have already descended on san Diego to secure the crossing as President Trump ramped up his promise of cracking down on illegal immigration. (Pictured: Camp Pendleton)
A former official also confirmed the same news about incoming ICE ‘raids’ to the LA Times.
Thousands of ICE officers were recently dispatched to the San Diego border crossing as they prepared to take ‘100,000 immigrants’ back to Mexico and Central America in one of the biggest migrant raids in recent times.
Marines descended on the area in an attempt to secure the crossing as President Trump ramped up his promise of cracking down on illegal immigration.
Around 1,500 active duty troops were deployed to the nearly 2,000-mile border this week, including 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton in California.
DailyMail.com can now reveal that they have been joined with what has been 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 do the biggest illegal immigrant grab in recent history.
‘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’, meaning arrests is the directive.
The source continued: ‘They are going to be taking 100,000 immigrants back to Mexico, Columbia, El Salvador and Guatemala in this grab.’
Border czar Tom Homan says he is not satisfied with the pace of migrant deportations – despite ICE’s ‘unprecedented’ number of arrests – and claims the US needs to ‘open the aperture up’ and carry out ‘more deportations’.
U.S. Marines with the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, deploy concertina wire as they re-enforce the border wall, January 25, 2025
Migrants deplane a U.S. military aircraft after it landed in Guatemala on January 24, 2025
Immigration arrests have reached about 1,000-1,200 per day in recent days, according to ICE, far above the daily average of 311 in fiscal year 2024
The Pentagon expects additional troops to be ordered to deploy in the next few days as defense and homeland security leaders iron out requests for more support.
It was also announced on Tuesday that the military would allow ICE to use Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado to detain migrants.
The US military’s Northern Command said in a statement it started providing facilities at Buckley to ICE starting on Monday.
Buckley Space Force Base is located in the city of Aurora, a Denver suburb, which figured prominently during Trump’s presidential campaign last year.
Trump said that apartment complexes in Aurora had been taken over by members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which was refuted by city officials.
During a campaign event there in October, Trump pledged to launch an Operation Aurora targeting gang members
Immigration arrests have reached about 1,000-1,200 per day in recent days, according to ICE, far above the daily average of 311 in fiscal year 2024. But Homan says America needs to carry out ‘more deportations’ of illegal migrants.
‘It was a great start. The first week was unprecedented,’ he told Fox News’ Jesse Watters of efforts so far, hailing how under Trump’s new policies, illegal border crossings have dropped from ‘10,000 a day to under 600’.
‘It’s great, it’s good, but we’re not finished and we need more deportations,’ Homan said, adding: ‘A lot more deportations and that’s what we’re working on.’
The border czar’s remark comes just days after he vowed that numbers of daily deportations and arrests will ‘steadily increase’ as they ramp up efforts to curb illegal immigration.
