Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested more than 1,200 immigrants in weekend raids
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A member of the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested in Texas by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the weekend and found to be carrying three rifles, two handguns and more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition, sources told Fox News.
The sources added that the person – who is from Mexico – was detained in El Paso. Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations last weekend led to the arrests of more than 1,000 people.
The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said last year that the United States was facing the “most serious and deadly drug crisis” in its history with fentanyl and methamphetamine flowing across the border — and that “the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels are in the region.” “The heart of this crisis.”
“They operate clandestine laboratories in Mexico where they manufacture these drugs and then use their extensive distribution networks to move the drugs into the United States,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram wrote in her agency’s annual National Drug Threat Assessment.
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Pistols, rifles and ammunition were found over the weekend after Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Sinaloa Cartel member in El Paso, Texas, sources say.
“The Sinaloa cartel also uses border tunnels to cross drugs into the United States undetected,” she added. “Most of the tunnels were not built by the cartel but are part of the sewer and water systems in the border towns.”
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knock on a residence’s door during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, January 26. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Last week, alleged Sinaloa Cartel cell leader Octavio Leal Hernandez, who is “believed to be responsible for smuggling large quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana into the United States from Mexico,” pleaded not guilty during a federal court appearance following his arraignment. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California said the extradition was from Mexico.
The arrest of the alleged Sinaloa member in El Paso comes as reports emerge that the Trump administration is pressuring ICE to increase the number of daily arrests from a few hundred to at least 1,200 to 1,500 people.

An ICE agent waits in a vehicle during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Citing four sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity about an alleged internal call with ICE officials on Saturday, The Washington Post first reported on the new target, classifying the daily targets of 1,200 to 1,500 as “quotas,” although A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior and Security told Fox News: “The objectives are the correct wording.”
Fox News’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
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2025-01-27 19:28:00
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