SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is operating a field office in San Francisco carrying out President Donald Trump's Enforcement and Removal Operations.
Orestes Cruz, ERO San Francisco Acting Field Office Director said, "ERO officers in the San Francisco area of operations are committed to enforcing our nation’s immigration laws against violent criminals, sex offenders, and others who pose a threat to public safety."
Recent sightings of ICE agents in the field have been confirmed in San Francisco and San Jose. Federal officials did not released information about why agents were in SF on Friday and in San Jose on Sunday, nor said if anyone was taken into custody for deportation.
A confirmed arrest happened on January 23, when agents from ICE ERO San Francisco found a Guatemalan man, Juan Velasquez-Francisco, in Sacramento. Federal immigration officials said Velasquez-Francisco entered the U.S. illegally, and his criminal history included a DUI conviction and felony child sex crimes.
Velasquez-Francisco was an "illegally present Guatemalan national convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor. He will remain detained with ICE until his removal from the United States," ICE officials wrote.
Cruz said, "This arrest is just one example highlighting the work ICE ERO officers perform each day to make our communities safer."
Community leaders said ICE agents were in downtown San Francisco on Friday targeting janitors who work in downtown office buildings.
"The janitors who work in these buildings clean our city’s offices. They go to work each day, pay taxes (and) raise their kids. They’re the salt of the earth," State Sen. Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco) wrote.
"Trump says he’s only targeting criminals. That’s a bald-faced lie," Weiner wrote.
ICE agents were also spotted Sunday on Story Road in East San Jose, where a large immigrant population lives, the city's mayor said. Another ICE operation was conducted in the Capitol Park area. "Our office has confirmed ICE sightings in multiple locations," San Jose City Councilman Peter Ortiz said.
ERO’s workforce consists of more than 7,700 law enforcement personnel who operate across 25 domestic field offices nationwide.
ICE agents, along with other federal law enforcement agencies, attend a pre-enforcement meeting on Jan. 26, 2025. (Christopher Dilts/ Bloomberg via Getty Images)ICE has arrested about 3,000 people nationwide within the past three days, according to the agency's X page.
A week into Donald Trump’s second presidency and his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, federal officers are operating with a new sense of mission. "The worst go first," said Matt Elliston, director of ICE’s Baltimore field office.
What has changed with immigration under Trump and what is still playing out?Under Trump, ICE agents can now arrest people without legal status if they run across them while looking for migrants targeted for removal. "Nobody has a free pass anymore," Elliston said.
On Tuesday, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott emphasized that police officers and city agencies are not working with federal ICE authorities.
Scott said at a news conference, "I want to make some things very clear. The San Francisco Police Department does not assist in immigration raids. Targeting immigrants who have built families, businesses, and homes here does not improve public safety. It does the exact opposite. It makes people fearful to report crimes. It makes children afraid to go to school, to the library, to the playgrounds. That's not what we want."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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