ICE agents arrest 20 undocumented immigrants in Mississippi, just days after Trump’s mass deportation plan

ICE agents arrest 20 undocumented immigrants in Mississippi, just days after Trump's mass deportation plan

A Mississippi county reported nearly two dozen immigrant arrests just days after President Donald Trump announced his mass deportation plan.

On Monday, Trump signed an executive order authorizing the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to arrest undocumented immigrants who are in the country illegally.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, ICE agents arrested 20 people for illegal entry-alien, which means they entered the United States without authorization or stayed for longer than allowed.

All of the arrestees, who are Hispanic and Asian, are currently being held at the Madison County Detention Center. It is unclear in which areas the arrests were made.

According to an August 2024 report from Mississippi’s Office of the State Auditor, the state has approximately 22,000 undocumented migrants.

Booked on Tuesday, according to inmate records:

  • Albertin Santiago-Matus.
  • Carlos Santos-Hernandez.
  • Cristian Mendoza-Soto.
  • Guillermo Mateo-Baltazar.
  • Heriberto Santiago-Matus.
  • Jose Santiago-Matus.
  • Juan Giron-Perez.
  • Juan Vaquez-Naranjo.
  • Julian Orozco-Villegas.
  • Moises Perez-Temaj.
  • Sergio Santiago-Matus.
  • Yao Li.
  • Zhongbin Zhengx.

Booked on Wednesday, according to inmate records:

  • Carmen De Los Angeles Garcia-Bravo.
  • David Francisco Pelico-Lopez.
  • Eduardo Vega-Solano.
  • Elpis Rosales-Caicedo.
  • Jorge Martinez-Medina.
  • Juan Monroy-Calderon.
  • Xiangdong Kong.

The Clarion Ledger contacted the Madison County Sheriff’s Department and ICE about the recent arrests, but neither responded as of this publication.

At this time, the arrests do not appear to be part of a large-scale raid like the one carried out in 2019, when hundreds of immigration officials descended on seven food processing plants in Mississippi and arrested approximately 680 people suspected of living and working in the country illegally.

Authorities described it as the largest immigration operation in over a decade, as well as the largest single-state raid in history.

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