ICE SWEEPS THROUGH MAINE — 200+ ILLEGAL ALIENS ARRESTED IN FEDERAL SURGE

PORTLAND, ME — In a historic enforcement surge this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 200 illegal aliens in Maine, striking deep into communities that decades of lax border policy turned into soft targets for criminal migrants and stay-behind sanctuary politics.

The enforcement, part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Catch of the Day,” represents one of the most aggressive immigration crackdowns in the Northeast in years — and it has rattled the coastal state’s establishment leaders.

Federal ICE teams, mobilizing under Homeland Security directives, continued round-ups this Monday after five days of targeted action across Maine’s cities and rural corridors. Officials reported more than 200 individuals taken into custody since the operation began.

Sources within the Department of Homeland Security confirm the focus has been on illegal entrants with criminal histories and deportation orders, although Maine’s liberal political class has tried to twist the narrative.

Democratic Governor Janet Mills and other establishment figures blasted the operation, calling for federal agents to be pulled from the state and accusing the administration of “secret arrests.”

Authorities emphasize this is law enforcement — not politics — and many of those detained have been flagged for violent, aggravated, and repeat offenses.

While left-wing mobs staged nightly protests in Portland and Bangor decrying the federal action, many Mainers see the surge as a long-overdue correction. Families braving freezing temperatures have rallied behind law and order, declaring that open borders are unwelcome in their towns.

For them, the presence of federal agents is a restoration of control after years of federal neglect — a check on the policies that turned peaceful communities into unwilling hosts for gangs, cartels, and job-displacing migration.

This week’s operation sends a clear message: the rule of law will not be optional simply because local elites prefer it that way. As criticism swells and political opportunists point fingers, ICE continues its mission — enforcing immigration law and removing those here illegally.

To opponents who scream “overreach,” federal officials reply that the real overreach was allowing this crisis to go unchallenged for decades.