ALAN GOMEZ, USA TODAY:

Well, everything ICE is saying right now is that this was absolutely a routine operation, that they had actually started planning before President Trump signed his executive order on January 25th that really was designed to ramp up deportations.

You know, I can tell you the Obama administration did two or three of these a year. Around this time last year, the Obama administration led a raid against women and children that were coming from Central America. It was very controversial operation at the time.

But it kind of shows that this is part of their practice. They do this two or three times a year. And according to ICE, this is something that has been weeks in the planning and had nothing to do and was not coming from any different orders from the Trump administration.