Overview

• The enforcement sweep unfolded over two days across eight states and nine cities under ICE’s intensified immigration operations.
• ICE detained Mehran Makari Sahel, a former IRGC member who has admitted connections to Hezbollah, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
• Yousef Mehridehno, who was added to the U.S. terrorist watchlist in February, was arrested near Jackson, Mississippi for lying on a visa application.
• Five of the 11 detainees had prior convictions for offenses such as grand larceny, drug possession and illegal firearm possession.
• The arrests support President Trump’s directive to ramp up daily immigration arrests toward a 3,000-per-day target.