By Jennie Taer
Published Feb. 7, 2025, 4:59 p.m.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested an astounding 11,000 illegal migrants in the first 18 days of the Trump administration – which is already a third of the total busts the agency made last year under former President Joe Biden, The Post has learned.
The arrests, part of President Trump’s mass deportation offensive, collared a previously deported Mexican cartel hitman, according to Department of Homeland Security sources.
ICE agents in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, nabbed Fernando Vasquez-Mendoza, who was identified as a hired killer working for Cartel del Golfo, or Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug trafficking organization and criminal syndicate.
It is unclear when Vasquez-Mendoza was previously deported or when he snuck back into the US.
The federal immigration authorities also arrested several members of the vicious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and multiple child sex offenders, according to sources.
