00:00These brave women have worked tirelessly to arrest approximately 1,500 criminal aliens and illegal aliens during Operation Patriot.
00:09In the beginning of May, ICE and its federal and state partners launched the whole-of-government effort to remove dangerous criminal aliens from all over the Commonwealth.
00:18I'll let our Boston Field Office Director give you the specific numbers of Operation Patriot, but what I can tell you is this,
00:25that hundreds of braves officers and agents risk their lives every day.
00:30Here in the Commonwealth, to remove dangerous criminals from Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowe, Lawrence, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and several other communities across the Commonwealth.
00:42So I'll defer to the FBI on that one. It's an active joint terrorism investigation, obviously.
00:47Still in the early stages that ICE was able to identify that he had overstayed his visa.
00:54While he did have a work authorization permit, it was expired.
00:58So with that, I will say that there are millions of individuals like this that we are attempting to locate from the past administration that weren't properly screened.
01:09We had intelligence from a local law enforcement agency.
01:11We were looking for the father.
01:13And like Field Office Director High said, they made a traffic stop on that vehicle, which was the father's vehicle.
01:19He was driving that vehicle.
01:21But like any local law enforcement officer, if you encounter someone that has a warrant or, like I said, is here illegally, we will take action on that.
01:28Yeah, well, the whole due process thing, ICE doesn't just scoop people off the street and remove them.
01:33Everyone gets due process.
01:34And that is what the U.S. Attorney's Office is for.
01:36That's what the immigration courts are for.
01:38They all do that.
01:39He will go in front of an immigration judge.
01:40He'll have the opportunity to post bond.
01:43But again, I'm just going to ask you a question.
01:44I mean, Boston police stopped an 18-year-old on the way to high school.
01:48Are we having this conversation right now?
01:51There will be a crime.
01:52There will be some evidence.
01:53It happens every day.
01:54Every day.
01:55There are multiple 18-year-olds arrested.
01:58But yet, we are focused on this one.
02:00And I will say, his dad hasn't turned himself in yet.
02:03And his dad knows he's the target of it.
02:05In regard to Macello Gomes, he remains in ICE custody.
02:09He was not the target of the investigation.
02:11But like we have repeatedly said, sanctuary policies put us in a position to go out into
02:16communities and look for people.
02:19When jurisdictions don't cooperate with ICE and we don't put people, we don't arrest
02:24people in custodial arrests, then we must go out into the community.
02:29And when we go out into the community and we find others who are unlawfully here, we
02:34are going to arrest them.
02:41We are going to arrest them.
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