US authorities have taken 121 people, who entered the country mostly from the southern border and lost asylum cases, into custody as part of nationwide enforcement operations to arrest and deport illegal immigrants.
This past weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) engaged in concerted, nationwide enforcement operations to take into custody and return at a greater rate adults who entered this country illegally with children, the US Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said.
“This should come as no surprise. I have said publicly for months that individuals who constitute enforcement priorities, including families and unaccompanied children, will be removed,” he said.