Fbi Deputy Director Bongino: Illegal Alien Criminals And Child Predators Are Next In Ongoing Crackdown

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino shared a elaborate update Saturday astir nan bureau's operations, making clear nan agency is focused connected removing vulnerable criminals and protecting children.

In a station connected X, Bongino outlined respective priorities and took purpose astatine what he called misleading media sum of nan FBI’s work.

"The workforce has been moving overtime connected task unit operations to region vulnerable forbidden aliens from nan country. The activity continues," Bongino wrote. "If you came present illegally to prey connected our citizens, your days present are numbered."

He said these operations are only getting started and will ramp up successful nan coming weeks.

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"After his swearing-in ceremonial arsenic FBI Deputy Director, Dan Bongino paid his respects astatine nan Wall of Honor, honoring nan brave members of nan #FBI who made nan eventual sacrifice and reflecting connected nan bequest of those who paved nan measurement successful nan pursuit of justness and security," nan FBI said successful a station connected X. (@FBI connected X)

"These removal and incarceration operations will dramatically alteration nan crime scenery successful nan state erstwhile mixed pinch nan administration’s laser-focus connected sealing nan separator shut," he added.

Bongino besides pointed to a caller inaugural focused connected protecting children from predators.

"Crimes against children are a privilege for nan workforce. Operation ‘Restoring Justice,’ wherever we locked up kid predators and 764 subjects, successful each portion of nan country, is conscionable nan beginning," he said. "We are going to return your state if you return distant a child’s innocence."

He promised much enforcement efforts to travel and warned those targeting children to "think twice."

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Dan Bongino is sworn successful to service arsenic lawman head of nan FBI nether Director Kash Patel. (@FBIDDBongino connected X)

Bongino addressed nan FBI’s efforts to respond to Congress and nan nationalist astir respective high-profile cases. These see nan onslaught connected Rep. Steve Scalise, nan Nashville schoolhouse shooting, nan Crossfire Hurricane investigation and nan origins of COVID-19. He besides mentioned nan ongoing activity pinch nan Department of Justice successful nan Jeffrey Epstein case.

"There are voluminous amounts of downloaded kid intersexual maltreatment worldly that we are dealing with," he wrote. "There are besides victims’ statements that are entitled to circumstantial protections. We request to do this correctly, but I do understand nan public’s desire to get nan accusation retired there."

He besides responded to what he described arsenic mendacious stories being dispersed by immoderate successful nan media and came to nan defense of FBI Director Patel. 

"He spends anyplace betwixt 10 to 12 hours successful nan agency attending meetings pinch everyone from overseas heads of rule enforcement to our counter-terror teams," Bongino wrote. "Any assertion different is simply a verifiable dishonesty designed to extremity our reforms and fracture your trust. I will dice connected this hill. You are being intelligibly lied to by group pinch an agenda, and it’s not your agenda."

He closed by thanking nan nationalist for its attraction and encouraged Americans to support watching nan FBI’s progress.

"God bless America, and each those who take sides Her," he wrote.

Dan Bongino began his rule enforcement profession pinch nan New York Police Department successful 1995. He joined nan United States Secret Service successful 1999 and later served connected nan elite Presidential Protective Division for presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

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After leaving authorities service, Bongino ran for agency arsenic a Republican successful Maryland and Florida. Bongino besides hosted a Saturday nighttime show connected Fox News Channel from 2021 to 2023.

He is nan writer of respective books, including "Life Inside nan Bubble," a memoir astir his clip successful nan Secret Service.

The FBI did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.