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Walter Valladares, an asylum seeker from Honduras, was arrested by ice. Video: MG News, ICE, Valladares family sources: ICE, International Rescue Committee
President Donald Trump launched his second term with “targeted operations” against undocumented immigrants with criminal registers, including Metro Atlanta and other parts of Georgia. The FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol tobacco Forces and explosives also include the federal authorities involved.
“As we have seen in many cases, Mexican drug cartels use illegal immigrants to operate everyday operations within the borders of the United States, where dangerous medication such as methamphetamine and fentanyl are processed and distributed with tragic consequences,” said Jae Chung, the incumbent assistant DEA department area.
Holden said that the Mexican mother had been arrested by ice in her house in front of her children. She said the oldest child was 18 and took care of her younger siblings while her mother is arrested in South Georgia.
Holden said her other client, a man from Mexico who has been in the United States for several years, was also arrested in South Georgia after he was arrested on Sunday on the way to the work of ICE. The man had approval to work in Northern Georgia while he was under ice supervision, she said.
“I have not seen anyone with a significant crime story that was picked up,” said Holden.
ICE representative in Atlanta did not immediately answer several inquiries to answer questions about the arrests in Georgia. Unofficial reports indicate that more than 20 people were arrested by ICE nationwide on the weekend. ICE published on social media that 956 arrests were made on Sunday and 554 “Häftainer” were submitted to law enforcement authorities in order to apply for non -creation with criminal charges.
The White House said on Monday that Osman Antonio Abelar Rubio, a Honduran citizen with convictions due to impairment and pending accusations, including assault and firearms, was arrested by ICE in Atlanta on Saturday. Records on the fees were not immediately available.
Another man from Honduras, 52-year-old Walter Valladares, was arrested in his house in Lilburn on Sunday morning, about 20 miles northeast of the city center of Atlanta, said his brother Edwin Valladares of AJC. Walter Valladares entered the United States about a year and a half ago, was looking for asylum to seek asylum and has no criminal register apart from a traffic violation, said Edwin Valladares.
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Gilda Pedraza from the Latino Community Fund in Georgia said that over the weekend she was aware of at least 10 arrests across the state over the weekend, mainly in the counties Dekalb and Gwinnett as well as in the Savannah region. She said that many of the arrested were relatively youngest arrivals that received ankle monitors while their asylum applications were pending.
Mario Guevara, a Spanish language journalist who reports under the Mgnews brand, said he was contacted by relatives of 20 people who were arrested in Metro Atlanta on Sunday.
Some arrests took place on the Buford Highway in Chamblee and Brookhaven, Telemundo reported. Others occurred in Lilburn and Tucker, the community members of the AJC said. The DEA's division in Atlanta said that it supported the efforts to implement immigration in Cartersville.
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Police authorities in Atlanta, Dekalb County, Cartersville, Forest Park and Clayton County were not involved in the ice arrest of the weekend, representatives said on Monday.
The mayor of Chamblee, Brian Mock, said in a public Facebook post that the city had nothing to do with the ICE arrests along the Buford Highway Corridor.
“I have no other information than targeted arrests that were made, and many people have frightened half to death,” Mock wrote on Sunday together with a graphic with advice for people who may be targeted by ICE.
Mock said that Chamblee had always followed its inhabitants of undocumented residents a “live and Let Live approach”, most of which are “hard -working, tax citizens”.
The AJC contacted the sheriff's offices in more than a dozen counties, including Oconee, Floyd, Whitfield, Cobb, Clayton, Bartow and Burke, which did not immediately comment on the weekend arrests.
Patrick Labat, the sheriff of Fulton County, said that he received no inquiries to support the recent immigration authorities and did not know that Eishapen was brought to the district prison. He said his office would continue to comply with all applicable laws.
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The Georgia's criminal extraterrestrial athlete and reporting law requires the sheriffs to coordinate with the federal immigration officials if someone is suspected in custody without permission to be in the country. The law was signed in 2024 in response to the murder of the student student Stocken Riley and the arrest of the suspect Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan citizen who entered the USA illegally.
A representative of the Gwinnett County Sheriff said that it was not involved in the weekend arrests, although it “fully corresponds to the state law”. The Gwinnett police referred questions to the Gwinnett Sheriff's office.
A representative of the Sheriff office of the DEKALB County refused to comment on the ice arrest. The office is not involved in the enforcement of immigration, which, as requested in the Dekalb County prison, goes beyond acceptance and real estate detention, the representative said.
The Richmond's office was not involved in ICES Weekend Operations, said a representative on Monday.
David Davis, Sheriff of Bibb County, said there was an unconfirmed report that ICE took someone in Macon at the weekend. He said that if stated, the person was not recorded in the district prison.
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Brad Freeman, Sheriff of Monroe County, said he knew no persistent ice operations there, although his MPs had arrested five foreign nationals at the weekend. The arrested people who are not US citizens have state charges, said Freeman.
“If ICE wanted to do cases, go here,” said Freeman.
The sheriff of Putnam County, Howard Sills, said he did not know any ice operations there.
Several counties in Georgia take part in the efforts to enforce the immigration of ICE. The counties Floyd, Hall, Polk and Whitfield are part of the “prison model” in order to identify and process “distant foreigners” with criminal charges and to be arrested by state or local law enforcement authorities.
The Georgia Department of Corrections also takes part in this program. The representatives of the department did not immediately answer questions about halves in their prisons.
As part of the program, when a prisoner is booked to prison, his fingerprints are added and uploaded to a nationwide system, which then informs ice cream with potential immigration problems, said a representative of the Sheriff office by Polk County. They said ice cream could request information about the prisoner from the prison authority.
A representative of Hall County's sheriff office said that it agreed to give the states of immigration for 48 hours to take care of an inmate without papers that would otherwise be released in bond. The representative said that the Sheriff's office had not been asked by the US Ministry of Homeland Security to take part in an immigration authority in the district.
Oconee County also takes part in the “Warrant Service Officer Program” by ICE, with which ICE can train, certify and approved state and local law enforcement officers in order to serve and carry out administrative commands for foreign nationals in their prisons.
A few half of the ice are housed in Clayton County, where a private prison has a contract with the US Ministry of Justice. It is unclear whether one of the people arrested at the weekend are housed in this facility.
The FBI office in Atlanta referred inquiries about the weekend arrests of ICE and Homeland Security investigation. A representative of HSI did not immediately answer questions about the arrests on Monday.
-The authors Jozsef Papp, Rosana Hughes, Taylor Croft, Alia Pharr, Joe Kovac Jr. and Meris Lutz contributed to this report.
