In cities around the country, immigration and law enforcement task forces have picked up thousands of suspected illegal immigrant criminals since Trump’s inauguration. Nationwide, immigration arrests numbered roughly 5,500 since last Thursday, according to ICE.

Detained migrants include alleged child predators, gang members, suspected terrorists and other violent criminals. Another suspected Tren de Aragua gang member, linked to a violent incident in Colorado, made his way across the country only to find himself handcuffed at an apartment building across the street from a school in New York City this week.

Trump said on Wednesday he plans to send up to 30,000 illegal aliens who pose a threat to American public safety to Guantánamo Bay.

“Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back,” Trump said. “We’re going to send them to Guantánamo.”

The president’s first major piece of new legislation, the Laken Riley Act, is named for a young nursing student who was killed by an illegal immigrant in a broad daylight attack at a park near the University of Georgia in Athens. It mandates the detention and deportation of illegal alien criminals and allows states to sue if immigration laws are ignored.

While the FBI has been assisting in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegals, officials tell Fox News Digital that the bureau’s other important duties, such as protecting the public from terror threats, are not being neglected.

Trump named Driscoll, a former Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent who joined the FBI in 2007 and later joined its SWAT and hostage rescue teams, as acting director last week ahead of the confirmation hearing for his official nominee, Kash Patel, which kicked off Thursday on Capitol Hill. 

Fox News’ Greg Wehner contributed to this report.