Expert predicts many DC arrests will involve criminal illegal immigrants

One of the experts predicts that there are a large number of arrests by the Washington Police Department, the newly identified federal capital, from illegal immigrants.

About 29 of 45 arrests were announced by the Trump administration on Wednesday, illegal immigrants. A day later, 15 of 33 were the arrests of illegal immigrants, including the suspect from China.

“It will not be surprising that we can hear a large part of the arrests that occur under federal intervention will be criminal foreigners,” Jessica Vujan, Director of Political Studies at the Migration Studies Center, told Fox News Digital. “Washington has long suffered from problems with street gangs that include or is the foreign illegal majority, partly due to resort’s policies, but also because the previous waves of illegal migration led to the diaspora in the large Central America in the region.”

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“Gangs like MS-13 and 18th Street want to create a store in these areas, so that they can recruit and intimidate population and extortion. Any city that tolerates illegal immigration will face a problem with criminal foreigners who know that they will protect against migration,” added Vujan.

This week, the Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi canceled the sanctuary policies of the administration as part of a step that would exceed the city’s laws in this regard.

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Earlier in the day, the head of the capital police, Pamela Smith, issued an order that allows some cooperation with federal immigration authorities, but he did not stop allowing cooperation for the only purpose of enforcing immigration.

“The capital’s passage stops reporting from illegal immigrants” a great step ” – it can be the next blue cities.

US President Donald Trump, along with Defense Minister Beit Higseth (L) and Prosecutor Bam Bondi (R), speaks during a press conference to discuss crime in Washington, DC, in the Press Crusher in the White House in Washington, DC, on August 11, 2025. (CAABALLERO-RYNOLEDS/AFP Photography via Getty Images)

Thursday, Smith’s short -term order allowed officers to start “exchanging information about people who are not in MPD reservation” such as “traffic stations” and providing “transportation to the employees of the Federal Immigration Agency and detained materials,” according to NBC 4 Washington.

“This intervention by Trump is an opportunity for the ice to compensate for years of disabilities of the capital’s government, and to clarify the criminal foreigners who have made their orthodox to the population committed to the law in the city. Gangs and predators will no longer enjoy the emergence of the city’s gardens and public spaces in the way they enjoy in the recent past, and those who will be sent here illegally to the homeland.”

Since President Donald Trump announced the police acquisition on Monday, many federal agencies, along with the National Guard, are patrolling the streets of Washington, DC, which are visible in major locations throughout the capital.

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Residents are surrounded by federal border patrol agents who are planning to escape after a migratory raid on Atlantic Blvd. In Bell, Calvishia on June 19, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

“In the era of President Trump and [Homeland Security] secretary [Kristi] Nayyem leadership, the law is launched on ice to preserve America in safe from dangerous criminals. As Al -Amin announced, ICE and CBP have been published to help clean the streets of our nation, “a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security said.

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The spokeswoman added: “Our message is clear: illegal illegal foreigners are not welcome in the United States.”

Elizabeth Bretchit of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.