The expert predicts that many arrests will involve illegal criminal immigrants
The DC prosecutor is continuing to block the takeover of the police
Justice correspondent David Spunt joins `America’s Newsroom ‘to discuss the efforts of the Washington Attorney General, DC to block federal police control of President Donald Trump. The anchor of “Fox News Sunday” Shannon Bream also weighs.
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A large number of arrests by the new Metropolitan Police Department of Washington DC in Washington will probably be illegal immigrants, predicts an expert.
On Wednesday, around 29 of the 45 arrests announced by the Trump administration were illegal immigrants. A day later, 15 of the 33 arrests were illegal immigrants, including a suspect in China.
“It will not be surprising to learn that an important part of the arrests that occur under federal intervention will be criminal foreigners,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of political studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, at Fox News Digital. “Washington, DC, has long suffered from problems with the street gangs which include or are mainly illegal foreign, partly because of the sanctuary policies, but also because previous waves of illegal immigration have led to large Diaporas of Central America in the region.”
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The Attorney General Pamela Bondi speaks during a joint announcement of the DoJ and the DEA on actions aimed at combating drug cartels and drug trafficking under the Take Back America Operation initiative of the Ministry of Justice at the DEA headquarters on July 15, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Craig Hudson for the Washington Post via Getty Images)
“Gangs like MS-13 and 18th Street like to settle in these regions, so that they can recruit, extort and intimidate the population. Any city that tolerates illegal immigration will have a problem with criminal foreigners who know that they will be protected from the application of immigration,” added Vaughan.
This week, the prosecutor General Pam Bondi canceled the policies of the ministry’s sanctuary as part of a decision that would prevail over the laws of the city on this subject.
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Earlier in the day, DC police chief Pamela Smith made an order allowing a certain cooperation with the federal immigration authorities, but failed to authorize cooperation for the sole purpose of the application of immigration.
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US President Donald Trump, alongside the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth (L) and the Attorney General Pam Bondi (R), speaks during a press conference to discuss crime in Washington, DC, in Brady’s press room at the White House in Washington, DC, on August 11225. (Photo of Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
Smith’s short -term order has allowed agents to start “sharing information on people not in police custody” as during “traffic stops” and providing “transport for employees of the Federal Immigration Agency and the subjects held” NBC 4 Washington.
“This Trump intervention is an opportunity for ice to catch up with years to be hampered by the DC government and eliminate criminal extraterrestrials that have practiced the city’s population.
Since President Donald Trump announced on Monday taking control of the police, several federal agencies, as well as the National Guard, have patrolled the streets of Washington, DC, and they are visible in key places in the capital.
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Residents surround federal agents and border patrol who plan their escape after an immigrant raid on Atlantic Blvd. In Bell, California on June 19, 2025. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“Under President Trump and the secretary (of internal security) (Kristi), the leaders of Noem, the ICE police are unleashed to keep America as sheltered from dangerous criminals. As announced by the secretary, Ice and CBP were deployed to clean the streets of the capital of our country,” said a spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior Security.
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“Our message is clear: illegal criminal foreigners are not welcome in the United States,” added the spokesperson.
Elizabeth Pritchett from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
