Personnel from multiple federal agencies raided a property on San Antonio’s North Side overnight Saturday and into Sunday morning, taking an unknown number of people into custody, the Express-News reports.
Agents from the FBI, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and other federal, state and local law enforcement took part in the action, centered on a site near the San Pedro Avenue and Basse Road, according to a FBI statement supplied the daily.
FBI officials were quiet about the reason behind the operation and how many people were detained and charged, according to the Express-News. The statement described the raid as a “court-authorized activity,” adding that the agency would provide more information as it becomes available.
A crew with KSAT-TV observed at least three vehicles being towed from the scene over the weekend, and neighbors told the reporters from the station that they saw two helicopters with lights flying over the property as the enforcement sweep got underway around 3 a.m.
It’s unclear whether the San Antonio raid has any ties to federal agents’ immigration crackdown over the weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, which resulted in 81 arrests on Saturday alone, according to the New York Times.
The Charlotte raids are part of President Donald Trump’s plan to carry out the largest deportation plan in U.S. history. The president has drawn criticism for deploying troops to Los Angeles, Chicago and the nation’s capitol to round up undocumented immigrants.
Although White House officials have repeatedly claimed that their raids are primarily targeting people here without documents who have extensive criminal records, the data shows that’s not true.
As of Sept. 21, 71.5% of people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention had no criminal convictions, according to federal records parsed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonpartisan data clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
Many of those with convictions only committed minor offenses, including traffic violations, TRAC’s records also show.
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