Trump’s mass deportation raids result in 655% spike in arrests of terrorists roaming US — including one of India’s ‘most wanted’
The Trump administration’s mass deportation raids have nabbed more than 200 known or suspected terrorists since January — including one of India’s “most wanted,” who is accused of masterminding a grenade attack on a cop there and has ties to a US-designated terrorist organization in Pakistan.
Since President Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have arrested 219 known or alleged terrorists, marking a 655% increase from the same period last year when 29 such arrests were made under former President Joe Biden, according to new Homeland Security data obtained by The Post.
Among the dozens of terrorists swept up in Trump’s raids was Harpreet Singh, a citizen of India who entered the US illegally on Jan. 27, 2022 by crossing from Mexico into Arizona and was swiftly released into the country by Border Patrol agents with a future court date, a DHS official said.
The Biden administration is to blame for allowing Singh to roam the country for more than three years, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Post.
“The Biden administration not only let a wanted terrorist into our country, but after he was arrested by Border Patrol agents, they released him into the interior of our country,” she charged.
“While shocking, it’s not surprising given the Biden administration routinely released unvetted terrorists and criminals into American communities,” she added.
Singh is one of his home country’s “most wanted men” for providing terrorist funds, recruitment and planning of a grenade attack on an Indian Police Station and on a retired Punjab cop’s house with the intent to kill and instill fear among law enforcement officers, according to DHS.
He is also wanted for multiple violent extortion and threatening operations in India.
Indian officials believe Singh is a senior operative directly linked to Harwinder Singh Rinda, an infamous figure in the Pakistan-based Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), which the US designated a foreign terrorist organization in 2002.
The religious extremist terror group started in the late 1970s and has taken part in assassinations of politicians, armed attacks and bombings, according to DHS.
But it is not clear whether or not border agents were aware of Singh’s terror ties before they let him go in 2022.
ICE was able to nab Singh in Sacramento last week.
“He had been evading capture by using untraceable burner phones and encrypted applications,” the FBI said in a statement announcing his arrest.
The Trump administration vows to continue to collar the terrorists “who have operated with impunity on American soil,” McLaughlin said.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, ICE is unleashed to remove these violent criminals from America’s streets and put an end to catch and release,” she said.
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Trump admin. files first terrorism-related charges against alleged Tren de Aragua member
April 24 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors have announced the first terrorism-related charges filed against an alleged member of the Tren de Aragua gang, which the Trump administration has been targeting amid his nationwide crackdown on immigration.
The five-count superseding indictment was returned by a Houston grand jury April 8 but was unsealed Wednesday in a Southern District of Texas courtroom, charging Jose Enrique Martinez Flores, 24, with conspiring to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, as well as with drug-related offenses.
President Donald Trump designated Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization in February, a move he used last month to invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador -- a move that has since been blocked by the courts, halting further deportations.
Federal prosecutors have accused Flores, who also goes by "Chuqui," of being a high-ranking member of the Venezuelan gang. He was arrested in Colombia at the request of the United States on March 31.
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The charging document alleges that he was involved in the delivery of approximately 11 pounds or more of cocaine for international distribution. The Justice Department said he "is part of the inner circle of senior TdA leadership."
He is currently in Columbian custody, though he is expected to be extradited to the United States, despite the Trump administration's efforts to deport those accused of being affiliated with the gang.
"Today's charges represent an inflection point in how this Department of Justice will prosecute and ultimately dismantle this evil organization, which has destroyed American families and poisoned our communities," Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement announcing the charges.
If convicted, Flores faces a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $10 million fine.
The indictment was unsealed Wednesday after the Justice Department charged 27 alleged members and associates of the Venezuelan gang with a slew of offenses, including human smuggling, armed robberies and sex and drug trafficking.
But not terrorism?
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