Operation Safeguard (United States)
| Operation Safeguard | |
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| Part of Mexico–United States border crisis | |
An image shared by the White House in January 2025 purporting to show the deportation of migrants from the United States aboard a C-17 | |
| Operation name | Operation Safeguard |
| Part of | Mexico–United States border crisis |
| Type | Immigration enforcement |
| Scope | Domestic |
| Participants | |
| Executed by | Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| Countries participating | United States |
| Mission | |
| Objective | To detain undocumented migrants with violent criminal histories and expel them from the United States |
| Results | |
| Arrests | 23,000 |
| Part of a series on the |
| Immigration policy of the second Trump administration |
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Operation Safeguard is a law enforcement plan of the United States government originally scheduled to be activated on January 21, 2025, but delayed due to targeting leaks. Its objective is to rapidly detain and expel undocumented migrants living in urban areas in the United States. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the lead agency.