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A large number of arrests by the newly federalized Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department will likely be illegal immigrants, one expert predicts.

Some 29 of the 45 arrests that were announced by the Trump administration Wednesday were illegal immigrants. A day later, 15 of the 33 arrests were illegal immigrants, including a suspect from China.

"It will not be surprising to hear that a significant portion of arrests that occur under the federal intervention will be criminal aliens," Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News Digital. "Washington, D.C., has long suffered from problems with street gangs that include or are majority illegal alien, in part because of s

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