ICE agents took at least 20 people into custody early Tuesday morning in the New York City metropolitan area, sources say.

Sources told NBC News that federal enforcement agencies will conduct an operation in Aurora beginning Thursday morning.

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NBC News was on the scene of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest Monday and spoke with the man at a Chicago processing center afterward.

Within a week of President Donald Trump being sworn into office, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers working with multiple federal agencies are arresting nearly 1,000 people every day set to be deported.

The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.

The Trump administration’s push to increase the arrests of undocumented people includes daily quotas for the tri-state area, according to The Washington Post. Local U.S.

The Trump administration ramped up goals for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to make 1,200 to 1,500 arrests per day, the Washington Post reports.

Thousands of undocumented immigrants have been arrested and detained under President Trump's executive order. Texas cities had ICE raids on Sunday.

Chicago residents, especially in immigrant circles, have been on edge for months in anticipation of large-scale arrests touted by the Trump administration.

ICE agents took at least four people into custody early Tuesday morning in New York City, sources say. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was on hand for the operation, along with agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol,