Video shows illegal immigrants on ice chain boarding together before boarding the plane
The newly released video shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Seattle, Washington, preparing a group of illegal, undocumented immigrants who can fly back to their homeland.
Ice and Air Operations (IAO) is ice air transport, which helps transfer and remove illegal foreigners through commercial airlines and concessionary flights.
The IAO recently brought a group of undocumented aliens back to the homeland from Seattle, where Seattle shared a video of the ordeal.
The video begins with ice cubes and clearing operations (ERO) agents standing on the airport apron, as other agents connect chains to handcuffs to pull out of plastic crates.
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ICE is conducting flights to evacuate illegal immigrants from the United States and return to their home countries. (Seattle Ice)
The video also shows several illegal immigrants being tied together and handcuffed before being boarded the plane.
Seattle ICE says in an article on X, undocumented aliens were departing from Seattle as part of the process of returning them to their home country. The video does not know where undocumented immigrants fly.
According to Department of Homeland Security data obtained by Fox News Digital, 11,791 arrests were made between January 20 and February 8, compared with 4,969 in the same period in 2024. This increased by 137%.
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ICE is conducting flights to evacuate illegal immigrants from the United States and return to their home countries. (Seattle Ice)
Of the 4,526 people in the same period in 2024, arrests of foreigners with criminal history soared nearly 100%, to 8,993 under Trump this year.
Meanwhile, arrests of general fleeing foreigners have increased from 2,164 to 5,538 – a 156% increase. Arrests of criminal foreigners in local prisons increased by 59%.
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ICE is conducting flights to evacuate illegal immigrants from the United States and return to their home countries. (Seattle Ice)
The data is the latest sign that the Trump administration’s flat push to promote the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants, including relaxing the cuffs of ice sleeves previously imposed by the administration, is having a significant impact.
The government said it was trying to target “the worst case scenario” with a focus on criminal illegal immigration and gang members, but also stressed that it is not ruled without dispute.
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ICE is conducting flights to evacuate illegal immigrants from the United States and return to their home countries. (Seattle Ice)
The government is using Guantánamo Bay to accommodate up to 30,000 detainees, with several flights leaving last week. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced legal lawsuits against New York and Chicago, asylum laws there.
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These moves follow a series of actions taken by the government on the first day. President Donald Trump signed an order to declare a national emergency at the border, restarting the construction of the border wall and ending Biden-era parole policy. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security has lifted the Biden administration’s restrictions on agents’ “sensitive status” to agents and ended the temporary protective status of some Venezuelan nationals.
Adam Shaw of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
