It turns out that President Donald Trump's crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., has resulted in the arrest of an illegal immigrant who is also on a terrorist watch list. 

This is according to a new report from Fox News.

The suspect, according to the outlet, was nabbed in an operation that was carried out by law enforcement on Thursday evening.

"President Donald Trump’s D.C. crime crackdown has led to 1,914 arrests since Aug. 7 — including dozens Thursday night, among them an illegal immigrant on a terrorist watch list and a person of interest tied to a gun found abandoned on school property."https://t.co/RBp5NXudZ2

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) September 5, 2025

Dozens more arrested

Fox reports that, in Thursday's operation, dozens of arrests were made.

Per the outlet:

Law enforcement officials arrested 73 individuals Thursday evening, including an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who is on the terrorist watch list; an illegal immigrant from Colombia and confirmed Florencia 13 gang member with prior arrests for grand theft, carjacking and bringing narcotics/alcohol in detention facility; an individual arrested on a warrant for attempted first-degree murder (knife), first-degree assault; another arrested on warrant for assault with intent to kill while armed; and an illegal immigrant from Bolivia arrested with prior criminal arrests for domestic batter/abuse, felonious assault, abduction by force without justification and driving while intoxicated.

That's already quite a success, but there's more.

The outlet continues:

Another unnamed individual was arrested Thursday evening for carrying a firearm without a license and a violation of the National Firearms Act. That individual was identified as a person of interest in an incident involving an abandoned gun found at a school Sept. 3, Fox News Digital learned.

Law enforcement, according to Fox, also rescued a missing child during Thursday's operation.

A major reversal

President Trump and his administration have been touting the success of his Washington, D.C., crime crackdown.

Trump, for example, recently posted a social media message indicating that carjackings in D.C. are down 85%, robberies, 42%, and violent crime 24%, since the start of the crackdown.

It has been reported that, since the start of the crackdown, which was in early August, over 1,900 arrests have been made.

Fox reports:

Hundreds of National Guard members, the Metropolitan Police Department and personnel from federal agencies, such as the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Capitol Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, have taken to the streets of D.C. to conduct sweeps and root out crime since August as part of Trump's crackdown on rampant crime.

While Trump and his administration are celebrating this as a big success, Democrats are trying to use it against him, likening the president's crime crackdown to the actions of a dictator.