>Is this thing Human?
370 arrested in Massachusetts during 6-day ICE operation
Updated: Mar. 25, 2025, 6:11 a.m.|Published: Mar. 24, 2025, 2:02 p.m.
ICE arrests Boston
ICE and other federal agencies worked together for a large-scale sweep that led to 370 arrests in March 2025.Courtesy of FBI
335 shares
By
Luis Fieldman | lfieldman@masslive.com
Immigration authorities and federal law enforcement agencies said on Monday that 370 migrants were arrested in Massachusetts across six days last week as part of an interagency operation.
The arrests were described as part of an “enhanced targeted enforcement operation” from March 18 to 23 that focused on transnational organized crime, gangs and egregious offenders, according to a news release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Several agencies took part in the arrests across the state, including ICE, FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
Among those arrested,205 had “significant” criminal convictions or charges, ICE said. Six were foreign fugitives facing charges or convictions for murder, drug trafficking, organized crime and money laundering,the agency said.
The acting field office director for ICE’s Boston office, Patricia Hyde, said the operation focused on dangerous offenders in the most “crime-infested” neighborhoods in and around Boston.
The operation targeted transnational criminal organizations and gangs such as MS-13, Tren de Aragua, Trinitarios and 18th Street, according to ICE.
The operation yielded 370 arrests across the state, Hyde said, echoing a statement posted earlier in the day on X by President Donald Trump’s border czar Thomas Homan.
Homan said he traveled to Boston last Tuesday to make good on a promise of “bringing hell” he made at the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this year. He described a majority of arrests as being “significant criminals.”
He again chastised Mayor Michelle Wu and Gov. Maura Healey for supporting policies that limit cooperation between local police departments and federal immigration authorities on deporting undocumented immigrants.
For the past month and in Monday’s statement, Homan has criticized Massachusetts law enforcement agencies for not honoring ICE detainers — which are requests for when prisoners or suspects will be released from custody.
The detainers also request local agencies to hold people up to 48 hours beyond when they should be released.
Massachusetts' highest court ruled in 2017 that state and local law enforcement do not have the authority to hold suspects based on an ICE detainer alone.
>370 arrested in Massachusetts during 6-day ICE operation
Who was arrested?
The FBI provided additional information about some individuals arrested during the six-day sweep:
A Dominican migrant arrested in Boston: reentered the U.S. illegally after his removal and was charged withmultiple drug distribution crimes.
A Dominican migrant arrested in Boston: reentered the U.S. after his removal with pending criminal charges of trafficking fentanyl.
A Chilean migrant arrested in Marlborough: convicted of four counts ofindecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years old.
A Brazilian migrant arrested in Worcester: charged withmanslaughter, homicide by a motor vehicle, homicide while under the influence of liquor, breaking and entering in the nighttime with intent to commit a crime and larceny.
A Honduran migrant arrested in Salem: reentered the U.S. illegallyafter being removed and convicted of rape of a child, assault and battery of a person over 14 and failure to register as a sex offender.
A Brazilian migrant arrested in Milford: wanted for murder and convicted for firearms trafficking in his native country.
A Brazilian migrant arrested in Lowell:wanted for homicidein his home country.
A Russian migrant arrested in Medford: charged with unlawful possession of ammunition and wanted in his native country for armed robbery and membership in criminal organization.
A Dominican migrant arrested in Dorchester: wanted for homicide in his native country.
A Brazilian migrant arrested in Marlborough: wanted in his native country for failure to serve a sentence after his convictions for homicideand illegal possession of a firearm.
A Salvadoran migrant arrested in Wakefield: previously deported from the U.S. and documented 18th Street gang member convicted ofassault and batteryand sentenced to two and a half years.
A Guatemalan migrant arrested in New Bedford: charged with rape and convicted ofenticing a minor under the age of 16, released by the New Bedford District Court without an ICE detainer being honored.
A Jamaican migrant arrested in Pittsfield: previously deported from the U.S. convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, armed robbery, possession of a firearm, and assault.
A Brazilian migrant arrested in West Yarmouth: wanted in his native country fordrug trafficking, money laundering, and membership in a criminal organization.
https://archive.ph/d4NaL