Patel’s immigration push to FBI produces 10,000 arrests since January

Exclusive: The efforts of the FBI director, Kash Patel, to help carry out the Trump administration immigration agenda have caused the office to make 10,553 arrests since January.

This figure, included in the FBI data reviewed exclusively by Fox News Digital, reflects the total number of immigration arrests that the Office has helped by the National Security Department with the realization of January 20, 2025.

Recent arrests involved in the FBI have included, for example, an operation in late May in Nantucket and Martha’s Vineayard. The FBI helped the ice arrest about 32 people in both islands, including a suspected member of the MS-13 Colla and a man named Luciano Pereira Deoliveira, who had loads of rape and child pornography, according to data.

Patel also periodically emphasized these arrests on social media, including the capture of Harpret Singh of the FBI in April. The FBI Sacramento Field Office investigated Singh, which was desired in India for alleged links to terrorism and who the authorities say they entered the United States illegally in 2022.

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The data occurs when Patel has faced the scrutiny of the media for the dramatic shook in the office for the last four months, which has involved highlighting high officials and other employees or trying to move them to new field offices. Some reports say that many agents and employees have been reassigning sometimes to help the DHS with the application of immigration.

Patel’s consultant, Erica Knight, said that office priorities have changed to arrest allegedly criminals in part due to the increase in illegal migration during Biden’s administration.

“With more than 10,000 arrests related to immigration, the Office under the direction of director Patel is making it clear, it is not ceding the border crisis, but is aimed at violent cartels and criminal networks that are exploiting it,” Knight said. “This is the direction that the North -Americans have been demanding and the office is fulfilling the promise of putting security and sovereignty first.”

Of the approximately 38,000 FBI employees, 13,192 have been commissioned at some point since January to work on the application of immigration, according to data. Employees include both agents and support staff.

The most recent week of data showed that the largest number of employees working in immigration tasks were concentrated in the Los Angeles field office, followed by the field offices in Philadelphia, Houston and San Antonio.

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Although a Statistics Agency, the FBI does not have previous previous data from agents and employees who help DHS with immigration arrests through any formal effort.

By Virtue of Patel, the FBI has launched interacent operations, such as one and the Attorney General Pam Bondi, presented themselves to Virginia in March when he announced the arrest of an alleged member of the MS-13 in the State. Virginia Homeland’s safety working group gathered the agencies of state and federal law to address organized transnational crime and the application of immigration.

The United States prosecutor, Erik Siebert, of Virginia, said that during a press conference at the time of the arrest that the working group had made 342 arrests, “many of them with illegal status” and 81 with “affiliation of bands or transnational crimes”. The DOJ accused the MS-13 leader with a gun position, but later moved to dismiss the post and instead deport him.

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A retired FBI agent who worked in the office for two decades told Fox News Digital that his understanding of his interaction with a good handful of agents is that some are probably “annoying” to the new immigration application work, while others consider it necessary to address the last years of migrants in the country.

“The fact that the office is helping in these things is just because they are unusual times,” said the retired agent. “We have never had a presidential administration … Import 9 million potential threats in their country, or whatever it is, so that the FBI must be involved in these things is unusual, but it is also necessary.”

“I think it was inevitable that the FBI will get involved, but the trick is that they have to juggle DHS and also on the farm,” he said.

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The retired agent also said that the office “contributes a lot to the table that these other agencies do not have”, such as new sources, databases and skills. He also said that work may be beneficial for the FBI due to the opportunity to collect intelligence.

“I hope they explode each of these boys, who clearly erase them and find out what they know and who know,” he said.