Immigration officials on Friday announced the arrest of 105 people in New Jersey over a five-day period that began a day after the state Attorney General ordered state, county and local law enforcement to limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

In a statement announcing the arrests, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the operation was planned before Attorney General Gurbir Grewal issued his directive.

"These outstanding results, which were made possible by our officers and law enforcement partners, highlight the tremendous commitment that ICE ... has to public safety throughout the state,” said John Tsoukaris, the director of the agency's Newark field office. “Our focus has been and will continue to be on arrests of illegal aliens who have been convicted of serious crimes or those who pose a threat to public safety.”

Immigration officials said that 80 percent of those arrested in the sweep last week had prior criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. The operation, which was led by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations, resulted in arrests across the state, including 24 in Hudson County, 10 in Middlesex County, 14 in Monmouth County, four in Bergen County, 11 in Passaic County and 6 in Essex County.

After Grewal's announcement last week, ICE officials said the agency would conduct what it described as "at-large" arrests in response to the new directive. The agency made a similar statement on Friday.

"ICE will of necessity have to conduct additional enforcement operations if local police departments and county jails do not refer criminals and gang members they encounter to ICE for review and possible arrest on immigration violations,'' the agency's statement said.

Carlos Rojas Rodriguez, a community organizer for Movimiento Cosecha, which lobbies for expanded rights for undocumented immigrant rights in the state, including access to driver's licenses, said the new arrests had to be connected to the directive. He called ICE a rogue agency.

"It is a shame that while the new AG is trying to create trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement, the ICE director John Tsoukaris is trying to destroy that trust and criminalize immigrants across the state,'' Rodriguez said.

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Seth Kaper-Dale, co-pastor of the Reformed Church of Highland Park, said a hotline he runs as part of an organization that helps undocumented immigrants at risk of arrest and deportation has seen an increase in calls since ICE announced that it would step up its enforcement efforts in response to Grewal's directive. The organization, Deportation and Immigration Response Equipo, is known by its initials, DIRE.

“The DIRE line usually rings three to four times a month,” Kaper-Dale said. “Right now, it's ringing more than five a week.”

Those arrested last week were citizens of Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Korea, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Taiwan, Trinidad and Venezuela.

ICE listed the criminal histories of 17 of those arrested, including a 59-year-old man from Korea who lives in Palisades Park and had a warrant to serve a sentence for distributing psychotropic drugs. Also arrested was a 25-year-old from Guatemala living in Jamesburg who had been previously deported and was arrested on charges of aggravated assault and possession of a weapon. ICE officials said they had asked Middlesex County to keep him in the jail there until immigration authorities could pick him up, but the jail refused to honor the request.

At least three of the people arrested were members of street gangs, according to the release.

Staff Writer Steph Solis contributed to this article.