ICE officers are out in communities every day conducting targeted arrests, Midwestern ICE spokeswoman Nicole Alberico said in an email.

“ICE continues to focus its enforcement resources on individuals who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security. ICE conducts targeted immigration enforcement in compliance with federal law and agency policy,” Alberico said. “While looking for those specific individuals, ICE officers sometimes encounter others who are also in violation of U.S. immigration laws. However, as leadership has made clear, ICE does not exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. All of those in violation of U.S. immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States.”

Neumann-Ortiz called on ICE to return the detainees to their families and called the raids “part of the Trump administration’s escalation of their white nationalist-inspired campaign of state terror against immigrant families.”

Community members alleged that heavily armed ICE agents, who in some cases falsely identified themselves as police officers, conducted the weekend raids and the agency continued to be active Monday in the Milwaukee and Waukesha areas, according to a statement by Voces de la Frontera.