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

ICE has take a spotlight role in the wake of plans in Trump's administration for mass deportations. Here's what you need to know about the agency.

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 launched an immigration enforcement blitz nationwide Sunday that included multiple federal agencies and resulted in the arrest of nearly 1,000 people, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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.

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.