Federal immigration officers are getting back up from the Drug Enforcement Administration. It's a major shift allowing agencies to work together in new ways to go after violent offenders.

ICE has made more than 4,500 arrests since Trump’s return to office and has conducted raids in major sanctuary including New York, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston, according to

Sources told NBC News that federal enforcement agencies will not conduct an operation in Aurora on Thursday as originally planned.

The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.

Authorities in Arapahoe County, Colo. had been on the hunt for Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco since September 2024, after doorbell surveillance footage linked him to a home invasion in Aurora, Colo.

ICE agents took at least 20 people into custody early Tuesday morning in the New York City metropolitan area, sources say.

The Trump administration ramped up goals for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to make 1,200 to 1,500 arrests per day, the Washington Post reports.

On Sunday, multiple federal law enforcement agencies participated in an operation related to “immigration enforcement efforts” in Savannah, Cartersville and Atlanta, according to a post on X by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Atlanta.

A spokesperson for the ICE New Orleans Field Office said the office could not comment on its activity in the region. In December, under the Biden administration, Fox 8 rode along with ICE agents while they arrested four men on the Westbank. They were allegedly in the country illegally and faced drug and DUI charges.

Delvin has suggested that while the state’s Keep Washington Working law, passed in 2019, prohibited the jail from sending a list of inmates to agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it doesn’t prevent agents from coming to the jail every other day.

Flanked by Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, Gov. Ron DeSantis said the bill would deter local law enforcement from deporting undocumented immigrants.