Important Takeaways:
- A record number of arrests – more than 1,100 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials – took place Monday as the Trump administration ramps up ICE sweeps from coast to coast.
- In Denver, agents raided a nightclub detaining around 50 people the DEA says were associated with the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. President Trump hailed the raids at a House GOP retreat Monday evening.
- “We’re tracking down the illegal alien criminals. We’re detaining them and we are throwing them the h*** out of our country. We have no apologies and we’re moving forward very fast,” Trump said.
- Military flights are taking deportees back to their home countries; and while agents are targeting violent offenders, officials say, they’re not stopping there. ICE Field Director Garrett Ripa said, “Case by case basis we make a discretionary call on every call that we arrest whether that’s a criminal or not a criminal. We’re going to take enforcement action on every individual.”
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that it was concerned about a new law passed by China last week to strengthen border protection amid a protracted military standoff between the two Asian giants along a contested Himalayan frontier.
On Saturday, China passed a dedicated law specifying how it governs and guards its 22,000-km (14,000-mile) land border shared with 14 neighboring countries, including Russia, nuclear-capable North Korea, and India.
“China’s unilateral decision to bring about a legislation which can have implication on our existing bilateral arrangements on border management as well as on the boundary question is of concern to us,” foreign ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said in a statement.
The 3,500-km-long border between India and China remains un-demarcated, and the nuclear-armed neighbors have overlapping claims to large areas of territory along the frontier. The two countries fought a border war in 1962.
Thousands of Indian and Chinese troops also remain amassed along a remote Himalayan border in the Ladakh region, where the two militaries have been locked in a high-altitude face-off since last year, despite more than a dozen rounds of talks.
“We also expect that China will avoid undertaking action under the pretext of this law which could unilaterally alter the situation in the India-China border areas,” Bagchi said.
(Reporting by Devjyot Ghoshal; Editing by Sandra Maler)
