White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Friday that "deportation flights have begun", releasing photos of people boarding military aircraft, writes Fox News.

"President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences", she wrote on X.

One of the photos was taken at Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources told Fox News. The sources added that the plane in the image holds 80 people and departed for Guatemala.

It is not immediately clear who was boarding the flights. Leavitt did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Information obtained by Fox News Digital shows that between midnight Jan. 21 and 9 a.m. on Jan 22, a 33-hour period, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested more than 460 illegal immigrants that include criminal histories of sexual assault, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, drugs and weapons offenses, resisting arrest and domestic violence.

Agents arrested nationals from a slew of countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Senegal and Venezuela.