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

Immigration and Customs Enforcement say they have been executing enforcement removal operations across the nation targeting convicts or those accused of serious crimes.

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

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.

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.

Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up

The Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed that it had partnered with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on unidentified operations Sunday.