ICE agents and their partners in federal and local law enforcement ramped up targeted raids over the weekend, seeking known "criminal aliens" accused of U.S. crimes.

The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.

The new Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, announced that she was on hand in the city to witness the arrest of an unauthorized immigrant connected to criminal activity.

Border czar Tom Homan told NBC News that several people with criminal convictions were apprehended in Chicago.

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Two illegal aliens tied to Mexican cartels and approximately 130,000 fentanyl pills, heroin, cocaine and meth were discovered during a drug bust in the Denver, Colorado, area.

The Los Angeles-based Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters said it’s cooperating with federal law enforcement entities on immigration enforcement efforts.

Top Trump administration officials visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city as federal agencies touted arrests around the country.

Maliu Tauheluhelu Maliu Tauheluhelu The 40-year-old leader of a group that operated illegal game rooms, online gambling applications and sold methamphetamine and cocaine out of a restaurant and snack shops on Oahu and Maui was sentenced Thursday to more than 16 years in federal prison.

The Trump administration launched an immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago on Sunday that includes several federal agencies who have been granted additional authorities to arrest undocumented immigrants in the United States,

The update comes hours after Mayor Brandon Johnson, along with the mayors of Boston, Denver and New York, were sent letters asking to testify before a Congressional committee on the city's "sanctuary city" policies.